different; wrong; mistaken; to fall short; to lack; not up to standard; inferior; Taiwan pr. [cha1]

to send (on an errand); (archaic) person sent on such an errand; job; official post

used in 參差|参差[cen1 ci1]

to go on an official or business trip

postman; mailman (dated in mainland China)

to not lack

not bad; OK

time difference; time lag; jet lag

to differ

bias; deviation

difference; error; inaccuracy

messenger

(idiom) word for word; verbatim; without a single mistake or omission

to report back after completion of one's mission

price difference

(optics) aberration

tolerance (allowed error); common difference (of an arithmetic series)

official errand; bailiff in a yamen

labor conscripted to support the military

to moonlight; side job

uneven; jagged; snaggletooth; ragged; serrated

contrast; discrepancy

(numerical analysis) divided differences; (statistics) mean absolute difference

heterodyne (electronics)

(coll.) extremely poor (in quality); shockingly bad

official business; government workmen; odd-job men

(astronomy) precession

to assign corvée duties (forced labor)

variance (statistics)

range (of a set of data) (statistics)

difference in exchange rates in different regions

difference in temperature

spherical aberration (optics)

determinant (characteristic of a species)

degree of disparity; equal difference

differential (between grades); salary differential

cushy job; pleasant task

lucrative job; cushy job

difference in color; color variation

hard task; difficult mission; arduous and unrewarding undertaking; drudgery; grind; chore

drop in elevation; (fig.) gap (in wages, expectations etc); disparity

parallax

attendant

to slip (e.g. of clutch); slippage; also used of economic indicators, statistical discrepancies etc

range (the difference between the lowest and highest values)

mediocre; rather poor; not specially good

adverse trade balance; trade deficit

imperial envoy

(trade or budget) surplus