Chinese symbol for “stubble”
茬
chá
stubble (crop residue); stubble (hair growth); classifier for a batch of sth produced during a particular cycle: a crop; sth just said or mentioned
The closest CC-CEDICT match for stubble is 茬 (chá), defined as: stubble (crop residue); stubble (hair growth); classifier for a batch of sth produced during a particular cycle: a crop; sth just said or mentioned.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “stubble”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 茬子 | chá zi | stubble |
| 残株 (殘株) | cán zhū | stubble |
| 根茬 | gēn chá | stubble |
| 残茎 (殘莖) | cán jīng | stubble (the stems of plants after harvest) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 茬.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 找茬 | zhǎo chá | to pick fault with; to spot the differences |
| 话茬 (話茬) | huà chá | tone of voice; topic |
| 胡茬 (鬍茬) | hú chá | beard stubble |
| 茬子 | chá zi | stubble |
| 接茬 | jiē chá | (coll.) to respond; to offer a comment; to jump into the conversation |
| 茬口 | chá kǒu | harvested land left for rotation; an opportunity |
See also: Japanese symbol for “stubble”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.