扎(zhā)

HSK 64 strokes
Readingszhāzāzhá

to prick

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Character information

Pinyin
zhā / zā / zhá
Meaning
to prick; to run or stick (a needle etc) into; mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from "jar")
Strokes
4
HSK level
HSK 6
Traditional
Same

Origin & structure

Where 扎 comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿰扌乚

A hand 扌 tying a bundle with string 乚

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

扌shǒu乚háo

Parts are arranged left to right.

How to write 扎 step by step

4 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with 扎

Common words using 扎 — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

zhā扎shi实
HSK 6

strong

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bāo包zā扎
HSK 7-9

variant of 包扎

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zhā扎gēn根
HSK 7-9

to take root

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zhēng挣zhá扎
HSK 7-9

to struggle

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tǎ塔zhā扎

Taza (a city in northern Morocco)

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jiān尖zhā扎

Jianzha County in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 黃南藏族自治州|黄南藏族自治州[Hu…

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kǎ卡zhā扎fēi菲

(Colonel Muammar) Gaddafi (1942-2011), de facto leader of Libya from 1969-2011

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kǎ卡ěr尔zhā扎yī伊

Hamid Karzai (1957-), Afghan politician, president 2004-2014

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实包根挣塔尖卡菲

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