Pinyin: chà

lacking; poor

Example sentence

我的汉语还差得远。

Wǒ de Hànyǔ hái chà de yuǎn.

My Chinese still has a long way to go.

What 差 means

(chà) is a Chinese word meaning “lacking; poor”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at HSK 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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