插
to insert; stick in; pierce; to take part in; to interfere; to interpose
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,171 U+63D2
How 插 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 (semantic, “hand”) + 臿 (phonetic, chā)
components: 扌 臿
How to remember it
insert · Heisig RSH #2958
fingers + 千 thousand + mortar
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 臿
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 臿 (chā) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 臿 sound component | chā | to separate the grain from the husk |
| 歃 | shà | to drink to an oath |
| 锸 | chā | spade, shovel; marking pin |
Words containing 插
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 插不上手 | chā bu shàng shǒu | to be unable to intervene |
| 气管插管术 | qì guǎn chā guǎn shù | endotracheal intubation (medicine) |
| 不插电 | bù chā diàn | unplugged (of rock musicians performing on acoustic instruments) |
| 有意栽花花不发，无心插柳柳成阴 | yǒu yì zāi huā huā bù fā , wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīn | lit. you plant a garden and the flowers do not bloom, you poke a stick in the mud and it g… |
| 无心插柳柳成阴 | wú xīn chā liǔ liǔ chéng yīn | lit. idly poke a stick in the mud and it grows into a tree to shade you; (fig.) unintentio… |
| 无心插柳 | wú xīn chā liǔ | (idiom) (of a good outcome) unanticipated; serendipitous; fortuitous |
| 电源插座 | diàn yuán chā zuò | electric socket; power point |
| 插入语 | chā rù yǔ | interjection |
| 插入因子 | chā rù yīn zǐ | (genetics) insertion element |
| 插线板 | chā xiàn bǎn | power strip; powerboard (with multiple electrical sockets) |
| 插卡式 | chā kǎ shì | (of a device, e.g. public telephone, ticket inspection machine) designed to have a card or… |
| 小插曲 | xiǎo chā qǔ | episode; brief interlude |
| 倒插门 | dào chā mén | (of the husband) to marry into and live with the wife's family (inverting traditional Chin… |
| 直插式 | zhí chā shì | (of a connector etc) inline |
| 插头 | chā tóu | plug |
| 插座板 | chā zuò bǎn | power strip |
| 插花 | chā huā | flower arranging; ikebana |
| 插上 | chā shang | to plug into; to insert; to stick in |
| 安插 | ān chā | to place in a certain position; to assign to a job; to plant; resettlement (old) |
| 插手 | chā shǒu | to get involved in; to meddle; interference |