Kanji Detail for 叉 - "fork, cross, branch"

叉

Jinmeiyō Kanji

Meaning
叉 means "fork, cross, branch."
1. To cross arms - To fold one's arms.
2. To pierce - To jab; to thrust between.
3. Forked pole - A two-pronged catching tool.
4. Fork - Branching into two.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

fork in road; crotch

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

crotch; fork, prong

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

fork; pitchfork; prong; pick; cross; intersect; "X"

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

fork; prong; cross, intersect

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

Fingers crossing. Tang poet Wen Tingyun, whenever he entered examinations and was assigned rhymes to compose fu, crossed his hands eight times and completed eight rhymes. People of his time called him "Wen Eight-Crosses." | Forking out. Such as 丫叉. Forked utensils are also called 叉. Such as 畫叉, 魚叉 (fish spear).
Onyomi

sa(サ)

sai(サイ)

sha(シャ)
Kunyomi

mata(また)
Strokes

3 strokes
Radical

又 (mata)
Related Keywords
fork cross branch pierce stab prong bifurcate divide split intersection junction two-pronged diverge thrust jab crotch arms-crossed grasp catch tool