扎
3 readings · tap one to hear it
to prick; to run or stick (a needle etc) into; mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from "jar")
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 手 +1
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 扎
- Common rank
- #1,052
- Unicode
- U+624E
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 扎 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A hand 扌 tying a bundle with string 乚
Components 扌 乚
How to remember it
prick · Heisig RSH #1836
fingers + fishhook
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 扎
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 马扎尔语 | Magyar (language); Hungarian | |
| 点子扎手 | (coll.) one's adversary is very tough | |
| 巴尔扎克 | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine | |
| 扎格罗斯 | Zagros mountains of southwest Iran | |
| 扎尔达里 | Asif Ali Zardari (1956-), Pakistani People's Party politician, widower of murdered Benazir… | |
| 扎格罗斯山脉 | Zagros mountains of southwest Iran | |
| 马扎尔 | Magyar; Hungarian | |
| 阿布扎比 | Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE) | |
| 普罗扎克 | Prozac (also marketed as Fluoxetine) | |
| 扎克伯格 | Mark Zuckerberg (1984-), American computer programer, co-founder and CEO of Facebook | |
| 卡尔扎伊 | Hamid Karzai (1957-), Afghan politician, president 2004-2014 | |
| 扎线带 | cable ties; zip ties | |
| 纳扎尔巴耶夫 | Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan 1990-2019 | |
| 莫扎里拉 | (loanword) mozzarella | |
| 扎心 | heartrending; deeply distressing | |
| 马扎 | campstool; folding stool (with fabric stretched across the top to sit on) | |
| 扎马鲁丁 | see 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁[Za1 ma3 la2 ding1] | |
| 扎伊尔 | Zaire, former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| 洛扎县 | Lhozhag, a county in Shannan City 山南市[Shan1 nan2 Shi4], Tibet | |
| 扎眼 | garish; dazzling; offensively conspicuous |