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咋
zǎ
1. dialectal equivalent of [[怎麼|怎么<zěnme>]]
HSK 6 Very Common • Top 5% ✏️ 8 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

咋
zǎ
question-forming particle: why? what? how?; to bite; loud
HSK 6 8 丶

Compound Words (4)

不咋地
bùzǎde
(dialect) not that great
百不咋
bǎibùza
of no consequence (idiom)
叽咋柳莺
jīzǎliǔyīng
(Chinese bird species) common chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita)
东方叽咋柳莺
dōngfāngjīzǎliǔyīng
(Chinese bird species) mountain chiffchaff (Phylloscopus sindianus)

Alternate Entries

咋
zé
gnaw
HSK 6
咋
zhà
loud noise / shout / suddenly
HSK 6

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
6
Character Frequency Rank
2,829
Word Frequency Rank
4,130 of 84,292