咋
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dialectal equivalent of 怎麼|怎么[zen3 me5]; Taiwan pr. [ze2]
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 口 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 咋
- Common rank
- #3,369
- Unicode
- U+548B
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 咋
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不咋地 | (dialect) not that great; not up to much; nothing special | |
| 不咋的 | (dialect) not that great; not up to much; nothing special | |
| 东方叽咋柳莺 | (bird species of China) mountain chiffchaff (Phylloscopus sindianus) | |
| 叽咋柳莺 | (bird species of China) common chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) | |
| 咋呼 | bluster; ruckus; to boast loudly | |
| 咋舌 | (literary) to be speechless |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 乍 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 乍 sound part | first time, for the first time, suddenly | |
| 诈 | to cheat, to defraud; sly, treacherous | |
| 怎 | what? why? how? | |
| 窄 | narrow, tight; narrow-minded | |
| 蚱 | grasshopper; locust, cicada | |
| 昨 | yesterday; formerly, in the past | |
| 柞 | beech, oak; evergreen; to clear away trees | |
| 酢 | a toast to the host | |
| 怍 | ashamed | |
| 祚 | throne; happiness, blessings | |
| 舴 | dinghy, small boat | |
| 苲 | hornwort | |
| 迮 | to press; hasty; cramped | |
| 痄 | scrofulous swellings or lumps | |
| 砟 | stone tablet; monument | |
| 笮 | boards that support roof tiles | |
| 胙 | meat offered in sacrifice to one's ancestors | |
| 阼 | the steps leading to the eastern door |