Unicode: U+59F9

Pinyin: chà

Definition

* 美丽。 ~女。~紫嫣红(花色娇艳)。 * 夸耀:"子虚过~乌有先生。"

beautiful, colorful; girl

Structure

姹 graph

Related substructures

Precursors

Small Seal Script
Standardized 221–206 BCE (Qin); developed earlier in Qin
The standardized seal script promulgated after Qin’s unification, based on earlier Qin seal forms and used as an empire-wide norm.Wikipedia ->
27_597C
Transmitted Pre-Qin Forms
Pre-Qin forms (≤221 BCE) / late 2nd century BCE onward (Han → later textual transmission)
Pre-Qin character forms preserved through later textual transmission (often discussed as the 'Old Text' / guwen tradition). Shaped by repeated copying, they can diverge from excavated Warring States materials.Wikipedia ->
84_F665

Last Modified: 2026-01-29 11:48 UTC