查

Zha1
#459 most
frequent character
surname Zha

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

查 first meant 'wooden raft', with 木 'wood; tree' as the meaning part. 旦 is an emptied form of 且 qiě, which once supplied the sound. That sound link is no longer clear in Mandarin. The modern sense 'to investigate' was borrowed only for the sound.

查 as a component in other characters

sound8 characters
渣喳碴楂馇揸猹齄

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Same Characters, Different Readings

查zhā
variant of 楂[zha1]
查chá
search, check

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