chā

fork

pitchfork; prong; pick; cross; intersect; "X"

hand grasping (又) + caught object (丶) = fork or cross

A hand reaching out to grasp something, with a dot marking the object caught between the fingers — the resulting shape naturally evokes a fork or crossing point. The image maps well onto both the physical tool and the idea of intersection.

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A dot marking a pointSemantic
The right handSemantic

请用子把肉放到盘子里。

qǐng yòng chā zi bǎ ròu fàng dào pán zi lǐ。

Please use the fork to put the meat onto the plate.

两条路在这里交,你要小心。

liǎng tiáo lù zài zhè lǐ jiāo chā,nǐ yào xiǎo xīn。

The two roads intersect here, so you need to be careful.

Words with 叉

叉子

chā zi

fork

河叉

hé chà

river mouth

钢叉

gāng chā

pitchfork

开高叉

kāi gāo chā

slit dress

音叉

yīn chā

tuning fork

高叉泳装

gāo chā yǒng zhuāng

high leg swimsuit

黑叉尾海燕

hēi chā wěi hǎi yàn

(bird species of China) Swinhoe's storm petrel (Hydrobates monorhis)

三叉戟

sān chā jǐ

trident

三叉神经

sān chā shén jīng

trigeminal nerve

二叉树

èr chā shù

binary tree

交叉

jiāo chā

to cross

交叉口

jiāo chā kǒu

(road) intersection

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