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揸

zhā

Character

What 揸 means

1. to stretch fingers out

Characters built on 查

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

• 渣zhāslag (in mining or smelting); dregs
• 喳chāused in 喳喳
• 碴cháfault; glass fragment; quarrel
• 楂cháfell trees; raft; to hew
• 猹cháBadger-like wild animal

Sounds the same

Read zhā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 扎to prick; to run or stick (a needle etc) into; mug or jug used for serving beer…
• 渣slag (in mining or smelting); dregs
• 咋used in 咋呼; Taiwan pr. zé
• 喳(onomatopoeia) chirp, twitter, etc
• 楂Chinese hawthorn
• 吒used for the sound "zha" in the names of certain legendary figures…
• 劄to prick with a needle
• 哳used in 嘲哳; Taiwan pr. zhá
• 齇rosacea
• 柤(hawthorn); Chaenomeles japonica
• 挓to open out; to expand
• 查surname Zha