HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Action

查 chá “to check” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 查 means

  1. to check
  2. to look up
  3. to research
  4. to investigate
  5. to examine
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to refer to
  • to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary)

How to say 查

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale查chá2nd tone, rising

查 in a sentence

  1. 记得查字典！

    Jìde chá zìdiǎn!

    Remember to look it up in the dictionary!

    Sentence #9991966 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我只想查一下我的电子邮件。

    Wǒ zhǐ xiǎng chá yíxià wǒ de diànzǐ yóujiàn.

    I just want to check my email.

    Sentence #334711 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 他查的是什么？

    Tā chá de shì shénme?

    What did he look up?

    Sentence #5158835 from Tatoeba

How 查 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 查 (chá) with each of its parts in a different colour
查cháto research
  • 木tree · mù
  • 旦dawn · dàn

How to write 查

查 9 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

查 (chá) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 查 (chá). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 查

Words with 查

检查jiǎnchá · to check调查diàochá · investigation查获cháhuò · to seize (in an investigation)审查shěnchá · to examine

More words: Action & Change Verbs

变biàn · to change加jiā · to add选xuǎn · to choose办bàn · to handle做到zuòdào · to accomplish带来dàilái · to bring (about)变成biànchéng · to turn into服务fúwù · to serve

FAQs

查 (chá) means “to check” or “to look up”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it chá: chá with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 查 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type cha with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 查 from the suggestions. Typing cha into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
查 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.