Wei Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Boat (zhōu)
Entry: 艖
Kangxi stroke count: 16
Page 1012, Entry 08
Broad Rimes (Guangyun): Pronounced cha. Collected Rimes (Jiyun) and Compendium of Rimes (Yunhui): Pronounced cha. Same as a small boat. Dialect (Fangyan) by Yang Xiong: In the southern Chu regions of the Yangtze and Xiang rivers, all large boats are called ge, and small ge are called cha. Commentary: Today in the Jiangdong region, they call small-bottomed boats cha. Also, according to Broad Rimes (Guangyun): Pronounced cuo. Collected Rimes (Jiyun): Pronounced cuo. Also, according to Collected Rimes (Jiyun): Pronounced chai. Also pronounced ce. The meaning is the same.
Textual research: We note that if the right component of the character 艖 is written as cha, it has 11 strokes; if written as cha, it has 10 strokes. Since this entry is placed under the 10-stroke section, it should be written as cha. We have amended the entry accordingly.