插 chā

1. chā verb to insert; to stick into
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '插'; Guoyu '插' v 1; Mathews 1931 '插', p. 12; NCCED '插' 1, p. 200; Unihan '插'; XHZD '插', p. 69)
2. chā verb to plant
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Unihan '插')
3. chā verb to interpose
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '插'; NCCED '插' 2, p. 200)
4. chā verb to plant
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '插' v 2)
5. chā verb to put into
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 放进 (Guoyu '插' v 3)

Contained in

• 画插图者(畫插圖者) illustrator
• 插屏 a door screen ; an exhibition display
• 插草标(插草標) to insert straw to mark for sale
• 插书(插書) to insert [map, picture, etc] into a book
• 插身 to participate; to meddle
• 插话(插話) to interject
• 插电开关(插電開關) plug-in electric switch
• 插贼(插賊) to frame somebody as a thief
• 插头(插頭) plug
• 热插拔(熱插拔) hot swapping
• 鲜花插在牛粪上(鮮花插在牛糞上) a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure
• 插旗 to put a flag [in the ground]
• 插签(插籤) to insert tallies
• 抽插 to slide in and out; thrusting
• 插足 to squeeze in; to step in; to take part; to step between (two persons in a relationship)
• 插手 to get involved in; to meddle; interference ; to cross arms in front of one's chest
• 扦插果木 graft fruit trees
• 见缝插针(見縫插針) to see a gap and stick in a needle; to make use of every second and every inch
• 插曲 interlude ; an episode; an incident
• 插舌 to interupt
• 插一脚(插一腳) to join and become a member
• 重插 to replug; to disconnect and reconnect (from a plug, port, connection etc)
• 插秧 to transplant rice seedlings
• 插科打诨(插科打諢) to include impromptu comic material in opera performance; to jest; buffoonery
• 插入语(插入語) interjection
• 插腰 to put one's hands on one's hips
• 插天 jutting into the sky
• 插不上手 to be unable to intervene
• 插补(插補) interpolation
• 插锁(插鎖) mortise lock
• 插播 to interrupt (a radio or TV program) with a commercial insert, breaking news etc; to put a call on hold
• 无心插柳柳成阴(無心插柳柳成陰) idly poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree to shade you
• 气管插管术(氣管插管術) tracheotomy
• 插言 to interject
• 插入因子 insertion element
• 插进(插進) to insert; to stick in; to plug in (an electronic device)
• 插糟(插蹧) a slot
• 插入 to insert ; to pierce
• 插播广告(插播廣告) slot advertisement; interstitial ad; splash ad
• 安插 to place in a certain position; to assign to a job; to plant; resettlement (old)
• 插烛(插燭) to place a candle on a spike
• 插图作者(插圖作者) illustrator
• 插图(插圖) illustration
• 插上 to plug into; to insert; to stick in
• 电源插座(電源插座) electric socket; power point
• 插班 a transferring student with abilities matching the class
• 插脚(插腳) to shove in; to edge in; to poke one's nose into people's business; prong
• 插翅 to attach wings; to be ambitious
• 穿插 to insert; to interject

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• 卷三百二十七 列傳第二百十五 外國八 韃靼 Volume 327 Biographies 215: Foreign States 8 History of Ming 明史 — count: 21
• 第七十六回 Chapter 76 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 10
• 卷三十四 Scroll 34 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 8
• 卷10　志第5　禮儀五 Volume 10 Treatises 5: Rites 5 Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 7
• 卷二百五十七 列傳第一百四十五 張鶴鳴 董漢儒 趙彥 王洽 梁廷棟 熊明遇 張鳳翼 陳新甲 馮元飇 Volume 257 Biographies 145: Zhang Heming, Dong Hanru, Zhao Yan, Wang Qia, Liang Tingdong, Xiong Mingyu, Zhang Fengyi, Chen Xinjia, Feng Yuanbiao History of Ming 明史 — count: 6
• 第四十七回 Chapter 47 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
• 第五十九回 Chapter 59 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
• 卷二十五 志第十五 輿服 Volume 25 Treatises 15: Travel and Dress Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 5
• 第四十九回 Chapter 49 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 4
• 卷二十七 Scroll 27 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4

Collocations

• 插翟 (插翟) 插翟尾 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第二十九 輿服上 玉輅 乘輿 金根 安車 立車 耕車 戎車 獵車 軿車 青蓋車... Volume 119: Travel and Dress Part One — count: 18
• 头插 (頭插) 头插栅間 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷十五 魏書十五 劉司馬梁張溫賈傳 Volume 15: Book of Wei 15 - Biographies of Liu, Sima, Liang, Zhang, Wen, and Jia — count: 5
• 插髻 (插髻) 或以牙梳插髻 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷五十六 列傳第五十 侯景 Volume 56: Hou Jing — count: 3
• 插二 (插二) 又插二鳥羽於其上 — Book of Zhou 周書, 卷49 列傳第41 異域上（高句麗・百濟・蠻・獠・宕昌・鄧至・白蘭・氐・稽胡・庫莫奚） Volume 49 Biographies 41: Other Regions 1 (Goguryeo; Baekje; Man; Tanchang; Bailan; Di; Jihu; Kumo Xi) — count: 3
• 插雉 (插雉) 插雉尾於武冠上 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷十七 志第九 輿服 Volume 17 Treatises 9: Caraiges and Dress — count: 3
• 插表 (插錶) 因插表令掘之 — Book of Northern Qi 北齊書, 卷三二　補列傳第二四 陸法和 王琳 Volume 32 Biographies 24: Lu Fahe; Wang Lin (general) — count: 2
• 插御 (插禦) 插御牀四角 — Book of Southern Qi 南齊書, 卷四十 列傳第二十一 武十七王 Volume 40 Biographies 21: Emperor Wu's Seventeen Princes — count: 2
• 插领 (插領) 展角全二色羅插領一百二十三 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷七十八　志第二十八: 　輿服一 Volume 78 Treatises 31: Carriages and Clothes 1 — count: 2
• 插右 (插右) 貂榼插右 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十四 志第十四 職官 Volume 24 Treatises 14: Government Service — count: 2
• 插羽 (插羽) 插羽 — History of Song 宋史, 卷一百四十九 志第一百〇二 輿服一 Volume 149 Treatises 102: Carriages and Clothes 1 — count: 2