# 蹉

| 蹉 | U+8E49, &#36425; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8E49 |
| ← 蹈 [U+8E48] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 蹊 → [U+8E4A] |

## Translingual
### Han character

蹉 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+10, 17 strokes, cangjie input 口一廿手一 (RMTQM), four-corner 6811$_1$, composition ⿰𧾷差)
* error, mistake, slip
* failure

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 1231, character 5
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37745
* Dae Jaweon: page 1703, character 4
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3725, character 10
* Unihan data for U+8E49

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 左 | *ʔsaːlʔ, *ʔsaːls |
| 佐 | *ʔsaːls |
| 袏 | *ʔslaːls |
| 蹉 | *sʰlaːl |
| 瑳 | *sʰlaːl, *sʰlaːlʔ |
| 搓 | *sʰlaːl |
| 磋 | *sʰlaːl |
| 溠 | *sʰlaːl, *sraːl, *ʔsraːls |
| 傞 | *sʰlaːl, *slaːl |
| 醝 | *zlaːl |
| 瘥 | *zlaːl, *ʔsljal, *sʰreːls |
| 鹺 | *zlaːl |
| 嵯 | *zlaːl, *sʰral |
| 嵳 | *zlaːl |
| 蒫 | *zlaːl, *ʔsljal, *ʔslɯl |
| 艖 | *zlaːl, *sʰraːl |
| 齹 | *zlaːl, *sʰral, *zral |
| 縒 | *slaːlʔ, *sʰral, *sʰlaːɡ |
| 褨 | *slaːlʔ |
| 嗟 | *ʔsljal |
| 差 | *sʰraːl, *sʰraːls, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːls, *sʰral |
| 鎈 | *sʰraːl |
| 槎 | *zraːl, *zraːlʔ |
| 髊 | *zlals |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰlaːl) : semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 差 (OC *sʰraːl, *sʰraːls, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːl, *sʰreːls, *sʰral).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): cuō (cuo$^1$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄘㄨㄛ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): co$^1$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chhê / chhôe
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: cuō
*** Zhuyin: ㄘㄨㄛ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: cuo
*** Wade–Giles: tsʻo$^1$
*** Yale: tswō
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsuo
*** Palladius: цо (co)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: co$^1$
*** Yale: chō
*** Cantonese Pinyin: tso$^1$
*** Guangdong Romanization: co$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sʰɔː⁵⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhê / chhôe
*** Tâi-lô: tshê / tshuê
*** Phofsit Daibuun: zhee, zhoee
*** IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰe²⁴/, /t͡sʰue²⁴/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰe²⁴/, /t͡sʰue²⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰe¹³/, /t͡sʰue¹³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰe²⁴/, /t͡sʰue²⁴/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰe²³/, /t͡sʰue²³/
* Middle Chinese: tsha
Rime :
| Character | 蹉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 清 (14) |
| Final (韻) | 歌 (94) |
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 七何切 |
| Baxter | tsha |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡sʰɑ/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /t͡sʰɑ/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡sʰɑ/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /t͡sʰa/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡sʰɑ/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡sʰɑ/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /t͡sʰɑ/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | cuō |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | co$^1$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*sʰlaːl/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 蹉 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 18008 |
| Phonetic component | 左 |
| Rime group | 歌 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 蹉 |
| Old Chinese | /*sʰlaːl/ |
| Notes | 古作差池 |

### Definitions

蹉
* to slip and fall
* to err; to make a mistake
* to step on; to trample
* to pass by

### Compounds

* 一頭蹉／一头蹉
* 平蹉
* 日月蹉跎
* 爬蹉
* 蹉對／蹉对
* 蹉跌 (cuōdiē)
* 蹉跎 (cuōtuó)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* to trip, to stumble
* to pass by

#### Readings

* Go-on: さ (sa)
* Kan-on: さ (sa)
* Kun: つまずく (tsumazuku, 蹉く)

#### Compounds

* 蹉(さ)跌(てつ) (satetsu, “failing partway through”)

## Korean
### Hanja

蹉 • (cha) (hangeul 차, revised cha, McCune–Reischauer ch'a, Yale cha)
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

## Vietnamese
### Han character

蹉 (tha, sa)