岔
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fork in road; bifurcation; branch in road, river, mountain range etc; to branch off; to turn off; to diverge; to stray (from the path); to change the subject; to interrupt; to stagger (times)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 山 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 岔
- Common rank
- #2,459
- Unicode
- U+5C94
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Words with 岔
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 出岔子 | to go wrong; to take a wrong turning | |
| 南岔县 | Nancha, a county in Yichun City 伊春市[Yi1 chun1 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 三岔口 | At the Crossroads, famous opera, based on a story from 水滸傳|水浒传[Shui3 hu3 Zhuan4] | |
| 隔三岔五 | variant of 隔三差五[ge2 san1 cha4 wu3] | |
| 岔子 | branch road; setback; accident; hiccup | |
| 分岔 | (formal) to bifurcate; to branch; (formal) bifurcation; branching | |
| 岔口 | junction; fork in road | |
| 岔道 | side road; byway | |
| 道岔 | railroad switch | |
| 岔开 | to diverge; to branch off the road; to change (the subject) | |
| 打岔 | interruption; to interrupt (esp. talk); to change the subject | |
| 南岔 | see 南岔縣|南岔县[Nan2 cha4 Xian4] | |
| 眼岔 | to mistake for sth else | |
| 岔流 | branch stream | |
| 岔路 | fork in the road | |
| 找岔子 | to look for blemishes; to find fault; nitpicking | |
| 岔调 | (of a voice) husky; hoarse; affected; (music) to go off-key | |
| 听岔 | to mishear; to hear wrongly | |
| 扳道岔 | railroad switch |