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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
- dialectal equivalent of 怎麼|怎么[zen3me5]
- Taiwan pr. [ze2]
- (literary) to bite; to gnaw
zhā - used in 咋呼[zha1hu5]
- Taiwan pr. [ze2]

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
6 - 4,582 3,796 1,199

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Mouth

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
6 - 4,582 3,796 1,199
咋呼 - - 57,172 89,988 57,449
咋舌 - - 67,661 30,481 40,437