查

HSK 3#1010 by frequencyradical 木

chá["v"]

to check; to look up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); to refer to; to research; to investigate; to examine

Zhā

surname Zha; variant of 楂[zha1]

Examples

记得查字典！

Remember to use the dictionary!

他查的是什么？

What did he look up?

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.