Character: 扯
Modern (Beijing) reading: chě
Preclassic Old Chinese: thiaʔ
Classic Old Chinese: thiá
Western Han Chinese: thiá
Eastern Han Chinese: ćhä́
Early Postclassic Chinese: ćhá
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ćhá
Late Postclassic Chinese: ćhá
Middle Chinese: ćhá
English meaning : to split, cleave, chop [Tang]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) разорвать, разодрать (бумагу); отрывать; 2) вести; тянуть; 3) развернуть (напр. знамя); 4) покупать (ткань)
Comments: Regular Sino-Viet. is chi`. A late character, more correctly written as 撦. The word may be of Austric origin (cf. PAA *cɛh 'cut, split' = PAN *Sasaq 'whet, sharpen'), in which case Viet. che' is rather the source of the Chinese form and not vice versa.
Radical: 64
Four-angle index: 474
Vietnamese reading: che`
