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咋
zhà
1. loud noise
2. shout
3. suddenly
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 (2)

咋呼
zhāhu
bluster
咋舌
zhàshé
to be speechless

Alternate Entries

咋
zǎ
dialectal equivalent of [[怎麼|怎么<zěnme>]]
HSK 6
咋
zé
gnaw
HSK 6

Metadata

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