碴
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fault; glass fragment; quarrel
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 石 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 碴
- Common rank
- #3,370
- Unicode
- U+78B4
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Formation & memory
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Words with 碴
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不对碴儿 | not proper; not fit for the occasion | |
| 找碴儿 | to pick a quarrel; to find fault; nitpicking | |
| 拉碴 | (of beard etc) stubbly; scraggly; unkempt | |
| 道碴 | (railway) ballast | |
| 接碴 | variant of 接茬[jie1 cha2] | |
| 冰碴 | ice shards | |
| 胡碴 | beard stubble; Taiwan pr. [hu2 cha2] | |
| 找碴 | variant of 找茬[zhao3 cha2] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 查 — compare how they read.