插 chā
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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) -
chā
verb
to plant
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Unihan '插') -
chā
verb
to interpose
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '插'; NCCED '插' 2, p. 200) -
chā
verb
to plant
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '插' v 2) -
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
- 插签(插籤) to insert tallies
- 插花 to pay land tax ; flower arranging ; to put a flower in one's hat ; to wear a flower [on one's clothes] ; to cover someone's losses [in gambling] ; to participate
- 挤挤插插(擠擠插插) crowded tightly; jam-packed
- 内插(內插) to install (hardware) internally ; to interpolate
- 画插图者(畫插圖者) illustrator
- 插槽 slot
- 插播 to interrupt (a radio or TV program) with a commercial insert, breaking news etc; to put a call on hold
- 插图(插圖) illustration
- 插销(插銷) a door bolt
- 插烛(插燭) to place a candle on a spike
- 有意栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成阴(有意栽花花不發，無心插柳柳成陰) you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree; things do not always turn out as one would expect
- 插腰 to put one's hands on one's hips
- 插口 to interupt; to interject ; an electric socket
- 无心插柳(無心插柳) (of a good outcome) unanticipated; serendipitous; fortuitous
- 插进(插進) to insert; to stick in; to plug in (an electronic device)
- 插舌 to interupt
- 插一脚(插一腳) to join and become a member
- 插足 to squeeze in; to step in; to take part; to step between (two persons in a relationship)
- 插线板(插線板) power strip; powerboard (with multiple electrical sockets)
- 安插 to place in a certain position; to assign to a job; to plant; resettlement (old)
- 插座 socket; outlet
- 不插电(不插電) unplugged (of rock musicians performing on acoustic instruments)
- 抽插 to slide in and out; thrusting
- 插上 to plug into; to insert; to stick in
- 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]
- 穿插 to insert; to interject
- 插队(插隊) to cut in line; to jump a queue ; to live on a rural community
- 插班 a transferring student with abilities matching the class
- 气管插管术(氣管插管術) tracheotomy
- 插翅难飞(插翅難飛) even given wings, you couldn't fly; impossible to escape
- 插锁(插鎖) mortise lock
- 插播广告(插播廣告) slot advertisement; interstitial ad; splash ad
- 插草标(插草標) to insert straw to mark for sale
- 两肋插刀(兩肋插刀) knifes piercing both sides
- 插电开关(插電開關) plug-in electric switch
- 插不上手 to be unable to intervene
- 倒插门(倒插門) to marry and live with the bride's family (inverting traditional Chinese expectations)
- 插贼(插賊) to frame somebody as a thief
- 插座板 power strip
- 插翅 to attach wings; to be ambitious
- 插柳成荫(插柳成蔭) to plant a willow for the shade
- 插言 to interject
- 插秧 to transplant rice seedlings
- 插身 to participate; to meddle
- 外插 to extrapolate; to plug in (a peripheral device etc)
- 插入 to insert ; to pierce
- 重插 to replug; to disconnect and reconnect (from a plug, port, connection etc)
- 插孔 jack; socket
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Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 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
- 第四十七回 Chapter 47 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 6
- 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
- 卷一百五十 志第一百〇三 輿服二 Volume 150 Treatises 103: Carriages and Clothes 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 4
- 第四十六回 Chapter 46 Water Margin 水滸傳 — 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
- 插二鸟 (插二鳥) 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
- 白刃插 (白刃插) 此老嫗乃欲白刃插我肋上 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷13 皇后列傳 Volume 13: Bigraphies of Empresses — count: 2
- 竖插 (豎插) 豎插兩邊 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷二十五 志第十五 輿服 Volume 25 Treatises 15: Travel and Dress — 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
- 插雕 (插雕) 插雕羽 — 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