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咂

zā

Character

What 咂 means

1. to sip
2. to smack one's lips
3. to taste
4. to savor

Words starting with 咂

• 咂嘴zā zuǐto click one's tongue
• 咂摸zā mo(dialect) to savor; to test the taste of; (fig.) to ponder upon
• 咂舌zā shéto click one's tongue

Words containing 咂

• 点头咂嘴diǎn tóu zā zuǐto approve by nodding one's head and smacking one's lips (idiom)

Characters that look like 咂

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

• 艰jiāndifficult; hard; hardship
• 咱zánI or me; we (including both the speaker and the person spoken to)
• 哑yǎmute; dumb; incapable of speech; (of a voice) hoarse; husky…
• 呕ǒuvomit
• 呦yōuOh! (exclamation of dismay etc); used in 呦呦
• 哌pàiused in transliteration

Sounds the same

Read zā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 匝(literary) to encircle; to go around; to surround; (literary) whole; full…
• 扎to tie; to bind; classifier for flowers, banknotes etc: bundle
• 拶(literary) to force; to coerce
• 臜used in 腌臜; Taiwan pr. zāng