//    シャ//    サイ//    また////    SHA//    SAI//    mata//

fork in road;  crotch

Radical: (again).   Strokes: 3画.   Elements: 又丶.   Pinyin: chā / chá / chǎ / chà.   Hangul:  [cha].

Jinmeiyō Kanji.

Example compounds:
こうさkōsa】crossing; (genetic) crossing over
こうさてんkōsaten】crossing; intersection
おんさonsa】tuning fork
シャやしゃyasha】yaksha (Buddhist guardian deities sometimes depicted as demonic warriors)
金剛夜こんごうやしゃkongōyasha】Vajrayaksa
飛行夜ひぎょうやしゃhigyōyasha】flying yaksha
またまたmata】crotch; fork (in a tree, road, river, etc.)
三つみつまたmitsumata】three-pronged (fork)
さすまたsasumata】two-pronged weapon for catching a criminal; man-catcher war fork
Codepoints and classification codes:
53c9Unicode
26-21JIS X 0208
4-3-1SKIP
2h1.1TKD
1740.0Four Corner
Dictionary indices:
856Classic Nelson
669The New Nelson Character Dictionary by A. Nelson
3386New Japanese-English Character Dictionary by J. Halpern
2914Remembering the Kanji by J. Heisig
3116Daikanwajiten 「大漢和辞典」 by T. Morohashi vol. 2 p. 683
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