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

• 插天 jutting into the sky
• 外插 to extrapolate; to plug in (a peripheral device etc)
• 扦插果木 graft fruit trees
• 插嘴 to interrupt
• 插屏 a door screen ; an exhibition display
• 插架 a bookshelf ; to put on a shelf
• 气管插管术(氣管插管術) tracheotomy
• 电源插座(電源插座) electric socket; power point
• 插身 to participate; to meddle
• 画插图者(畫插圖者) illustrator
• 插书(插書) to insert [map, picture, etc] into a book
• 不插电(不插電) unplugged (of rock musicians performing on acoustic instruments)
• 插脚(插腳) to shove in; to edge in; to poke one's nose into people's business; prong
• 插补(插補) interpolation
• 插锁(插鎖) mortise lock
• 插入语(插入語) interjection
• 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)
• 插翅难飞(插翅難飛) even given wings, you couldn't fly; impossible to escape
• 插水 to wade in water
• 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
• 重插 to replug; to disconnect and reconnect (from a plug, port, connection etc)
• 插贼(插賊) to frame somebody as a thief
• 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
• 插翅 to attach wings; to be ambitious
• 挤挤插插(擠擠插插) crowded tightly; jam-packed
• 插入因子 insertion element
• 插柳成荫(插柳成蔭) to plant a willow for the shade
• 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(無心插柳) (of a good outcome) unanticipated; serendipitous; fortuitous
• 插口 to interupt; to interject ; an electric socket
• 插不上手 to be unable to intervene
• 插舌 to interupt
• 插槽 slot
• 插草标(插草標) to insert straw to mark for sale
• 插孔 jack; socket
• 插图(插圖) illustration
• 小插曲 episode; brief interlude
• 抽插 to slide in and out; thrusting
• 鲜花插在牛粪上(鮮花插在牛糞上) a bunch of flowers poked into a pile of manure
• 插图作者(插圖作者) illustrator
• 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
• 插座 socket; outlet
• 插签(插籤) to insert tallies
• 插销(插銷) a door bolt
• 插旗 to put a flag [in the ground]
• 插糟(插蹧) a slot
• 热插拔(熱插拔) hot swapping

Also contained in

插件 、 随插即用 、 插画

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Truncated for common words

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• 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
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• 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
• 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
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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
• 表插 (錶插) 以草往往表插而導道焉 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷75 尒朱兆 尒朱彦伯 尒朱度律 尒朱天光 Volume 75: Erzhu Zhao, Erzhu Yanbo, Erzhu Dulu, Erzhu Tianguang — count: 2
• 一插 (一插) 持一插 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷81　列傳第46 東夷 Volume 81 Biographies 46: The Dongyi — 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
• 插貂 (插貂) 前插貂尾 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 第三十 輿服下 冕冠 長冠 委貌冠 皮弁冠 爵弁冠 通天冠 遠遊冠 高山冠...Volume 120: Travel and Dress Part Two — count: 2