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咋

zǎ

HSK 2.0 · 6

Yue Tan · University of Caen; © 2009 Yue Tan. MP3 preparation: Hugo Lopez / audio-cmn · CC BY-SA 3.0 US

zǎ · zaa3 (Jyutping)

  1. dialectal equivalent of 怎麼|怎么[zen3 me5]
  2. Taiwan pr. [ze2]

zé · zaa3 (Jyutping)

  1. (literary) to bite; to gnaw

zhā

  1. used in 咋呼[zha1 hu5]
  2. Taiwan pr. [ze2]

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

咋

Meaning
question-forming particle, why? how? what?; to bite; loud
Radical
口
Strokes
8
Components
⿰口乍
Cangjie
RHS
Four-corner
6801.1

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