zhà

question-forming particle

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

乍 sound component

  Sound component

zhà

  

suddenly

Definitions

 

question-forming particle, why? how? what?; to bite; loud; dialectal equivalent of 怎麼|怎么[zěn​me]

 

gnaw

 

zhà

loud noise; shout; suddenly

Most common words with 咋
Freq.
Word
Meaning

dialectal equivalent of 怎麼|怎么[zěn​me]

咋舌

to be speechless

咋呼

bluster

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 4.7733% of movies

2465th most common character in movies

2830th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+548B


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