Printable Writing Practice Worksheet of "插" in Portrait Orientation (Tian Zi Ge)
Printable Writing Practice Worksheet of "插" in Landscape Orientation (Tian Zi Ge)
Pinyin
chā
Definition
insert / stick in / pierce / to take part in / to interfere / to interpose
to interrupt (sb talking) / to butt in / to cut into a conversation
table screen / table plaque
to insert / to stick / to thrust
to get involved in / to meddle / interference
to insert / to take turns, alternate / to interweave / to interlace / subplot / interlude / episode / (military) to thrust deep into the enemy forces
socket (for an electric plug) / to interrupt (sb speaking) / to butt in
to interrupt (sb speaking) / interruption / digression
to cut in line / to jump a queue / to live on a rural community (during the Cultural Revolution)
music played during a movie, play etc / incidental music / music played in a theatrical interlude / (fig.) incident / episode
to place in a certain position / to assign to a job / to plant / resettlement (old)
plug-in (software component)
flower arranging / ikebana
to squeeze in / to step in / to take part / to step between (two persons in a relationship)
(medicine) to intubate / intubation / (endotracheal) tube
to transplant rice seedlings
lit. even given wings, you couldn't fly (idiom); fig. impossible to escape
lit. knifes piercing both sides (idiom) / fig. to attach a great importance to friendship, up to the point of being able to sacrifice oneself for it
无心插柳柳成荫 wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīn
an untended willow grows
to include impromptu comic material in opera performance (idiom); to jest / buffoonery