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Kanji Detail for 差 - "difference, send, vary"

  • Meaning

    差 means "difference, send, vary."

    1. Difference - A distinction; a gap.

    2. Send - To dispatch; to assign.

    3. Vary - To differ; to diverge.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    distinction; difference; variation; discrepancy; margin; balance

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    to differ; different, wrong; nearly, almost; an officer

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    difference; discrepancy; (math.) difference (amount remaining after a subtraction); (literary) a little; somewhat; slightly

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    difference, gap; almost, nearly; in error; an officer

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

    Error. Such as 失之毫釐、差以千里, meaning carelessness at the start, though small, leads to great error. See (Book of Han). | Gradation; unequal. Such as descending by degrees called 等差. Uneven things are called 參差. | To send. Sending someone on a task is called 差. Such as 差遣. Colloquially, the task itself is also called 差. Such as completing a task called 銷差. | Difference. Slightly better from illness is called 小差, meaning different from the previous severity. Commonly written as 瘥.
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