差
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
差 (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.