HSK 6 · Verbs

扎 zhā “to prick” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 扎 means

  1. to prick
  2. to pierce
  3. to plunge into
  4. to run or stick (a needle etc) into
  5. mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from “jar”)

How to say 扎

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale扎zhā1st tone, high and level

扎 in a sentence

  1. 她拔出了一根儿扎在轮胎里的刺。

    Tā báchū le yì gēnr zhā zài lúntāi lǐ de cì.

    She pulled out a thorn that was stuck in the tyre.

    Sentence #10530864 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 扎 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 扎 (zhā) with each of its parts in a different colour
扎zhāto prick
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 乚second (cyclical) form of 乙 · yǐ

How to write 扎

扎 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

扎 (zhā) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 扎 (zhā). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 扎

Words with 扎

挣扎zhēngzhá · to struggle扎实zhāshi · solid驻扎zhùzhā · to be stationed

More words: Common Verbs

遭殃zāoyāng · to suffer disaster遭遇zāoyù · to encounter赠送zèngsòng · to give as a present增添zēngtiān · to add占据zhànjù · to occupy展示zhǎnshì · to display展现zhǎnxiàn · to show瞻仰zhānyǎng · to look up to with reverence

FAQs

扎 (zhā) means “to prick” or “to pierce”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it zhā: zhā with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 扎 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zha with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 扎 from the suggestions. Typing zha into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
扎 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.