汊

汊 (Kangxi radical 85, 水+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 水水戈 (EEI), four-corner 3714₀, composition ⿰氵叉)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 604, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17115
• Dae Jaweon: page 998, character 5
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1556, character 4
• Unihan data for U+6C4A

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰraːls) and ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 叉 (OC *sʰraːl, *sʰreːl, “to intersect”)

汊

1. a branching stream

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. branching stream

• Go-on: しゃ (sha)
• Kan-on: さ (sa)

From Middle Chinese 汊 (MC tsrhaeH). Recorded as Middle Korean 차 (cha) (Yale: cha) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

 

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

汊

Wikisource

汊 (eumhun 물 갈래지을 차 (mul gallaejieul cha))

1. hanja form^? of 차 (“branching of water”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]

汊: Hán Việt readings: xá (楚(sở)嫁(giá)切(thiết))^[1]
汊: Nôm readings: xòa/xoà^[1][2]

1. chữ Hán form of xá (“a branching stream”).
2. Nôm form of xòa/xoà (“to spread out”).