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咤

zhà

Character

What 咤 means

1. used in {叱咤|chì zhà}

Words containing 咤

• 叱咤风云chì zhà fēng yúnlit. to rebuke Heaven and Earth (idiom); fig. shaking the whole world; all-powerful
• 叱咤chì zhàto rebuke angrily

Characters built on 宅

These share the phonetic component 宅 (zhái), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 诧chàto be surprised; to be astonished
• 姹chà(literary) beautiful

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
• 乍at first; suddenly; abruptly
• 栅fence; also pr. shān
• 蚱grasshopper
• 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