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乍

zhà

Character

What 乍 means

1. at first
2. suddenly
3. abruptly
4. to spread
5. (of hair) to stand on end
6. bristling

Example sentences

• 或许是因为他有胡子而让他乍看之下很可怕，其实他是个非常好的人。
  Huòxǔ shì yīnwèi tā yǒu húzi ér ràng tā zhàkàn zhīxià hěn kěpà, qíshí tā shì gè fēicháng hǎo de rén.
  Possibly because he's got a beard, he looks scary at first glance but he's really a kind man.
• 光速比音速快，所以有些人乍看之下很聪明，等到听到他们开口说话，愚笨的本性才表露无遗。
  Guāngsù bǐ yīnsù kuài, suǒyǐ yǒuxiērén zhàkàn zhīxià hěn cōngming, děngdào tīngdào tāmen kāikǒu shuōhuà, yúbèn de běnxìng cái biǎolùwúyí.
  It is because light travels faster than sound that some people look brilliant before sounding stupid.

Words starting with 乍

• 乍得Zhà déChad
• 乍浦Zhà pǔZhapu, a town and port on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay in Zhejiang, historically…
• 乍现zhà xiànto appear suddenly
• 乍看zhà kànat first glance
• 乍得湖Zhà dé HúLake Chad
• 乍青乍白zhà qīng zhà bái(of sb's face) turning alternately green and white
• 乍暖还寒zhà nuǎn huán hán(idiom) (of early spring weather) alternating between warm and cold

Words containing 乍

• 初来乍到chū lái zhà dàoto be a newcomer; just off the boat
• 猛乍měng zhàsuddenly; unexpectedly
• 新来乍到xīn lái zhà dàonewly arrived (idiom)
• 春光乍泄chūn guāng zhà xièspring sunshine emerges to bring the world alive (idiom)…
• 一惊一乍yī jīng yī zhàfrightened; flustered

Characters that look like 乍

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 节jiéjoint; node; (bound form) section; segment; solar term…

Sounds the same

Read zhà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 炸to burst; to explode; to blow up; to bomb; (colloquial) to fly into a rage
• 诈to cheat; to swindle; to pretend
• 榨to press; to extract (juice); device for extracting juice, oils etc
• 栅fence; also pr. shān
• 蚱grasshopper
• 咤used in 叱咤
• 醡press for extracting wine
• 柞used in 柞水
• 痄mumps
• 䃎(used in place names)
• 奓to open; to spread
• 溠name of a river