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咋
zǎ
What 咋 means
- dialectal equivalent of {怎么|zěn me}
- Taiwan pr. zé
Other readings
Example sentences
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不咋地。It wasn't good.
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最近咋样？Zuì jìn zǎ yàng?How've ya' been lately?
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瞅你咋地？So what if I'm staring?
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你咋花这笔钱嘞Nǐ zǎ huā zhè bǐ qián leiWhat do you plan on doing with the money?
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夏天过得咋样啊？Xiàtiān guòdé zǎ yàng ā?How was your summer?
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你今天心情咋样？How do you feel today?
Words starting with 咋
Words containing 咋
- 不咋地bù zǎ de(dialect) not that great; not up to much; nothing special
- 不咋的bù zǎ de(dialect) not that great; not up to much; nothing special
- 叽咋柳莺jī zǎ liǔ yīng(bird species of China) common chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita)
- 东方叽咋柳莺dōng fāng jī zǎ liǔ yīng(bird species of China) mountain chiffchaff (Phylloscopus sindianus)
- 百不咋bǎi bù zaof no consequence (idiom)
Characters built on 乍
These share the phonetic component 乍 (zhà), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.
- 炸zhàto burst; to explode; to blow up; to bomb; (colloquial) to fly into a rage
- 诈zhàto cheat; to swindle; to pretend
- 蚱zhàgrasshopper
- 砟zhǎfragments
- 柞zhàused in 柞水
- 痄zhàmumps
Characters that look like 咋
Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.
- 呼hūto call; to cry; to shout
- 昨zuóyesterday
- 吻wěnkiss; to kiss; mouth
- 呻shēn(literary) to recite; to chant; to intone; (bound form) groan
- 哗huáclamor; noise; (bound form) sound used to call cats
- 咔kǎ(used as phonetic "ka")
Where 咋 is taught
In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · cuán–zàn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.
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