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咗

zuǒ

Character

What 咗 means

1. Cantonese particle equivalent to {了|le} or {过|guò}

Example sentences

• 汤姆吓咗一跳。
  Tom was shocked.

Sounds the same

Read zuǒ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 左left; the Left (politics); east
• 佐to assist; assistant; aide
• 撮classifier for hair or grass: tuft; Taiwan pr. cuò

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zuǒ correctly.
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