Radical

9 strokes

sheep (204a) + work 工 (147) = fall short 差

[差不多 (9, 69) chàbuduō more or less]

[差点儿 (185, 21) chàdiǎnr almost, nearly]

The sheep keep working at their long-jump practice by trying to jump across the river, but keep falling short. / Their dwarf coach keeps a chart of their progress and he’s not impressed!

This modified form of “sheep” (Character 111) has the tail swept off to one side to make room for another character underneath. The vertical stroke remains one stroke when it is drawn at an angle, even though in some older fonts it looks as if it is broken into two.