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糟

zāo

HSK 5 Character

What 糟 means

1. dregs
2. draff
3. pickled in wine
4. rotten
5. messy
6. ruined

Example sentences

• 真糟糕！
  How horrible!
• 真糟糕。
  It was terrible.
• 糟糕啊！
  Terrible!
• 它变糟了。
  It just gets worse.
• 那是更糟。
  That's even worse.
• 再糟糕不过了
  Zài zāogāo bùguò le
  That couldn't have gone any worse.

Words starting with 糟

• 糟糕zāo gāotoo bad; how terrible; what bad luck
• 糟蹋zāo tàto waste; to spoil; to ruin; to wreck; to insult; to humiliate
• 糟粕zāo pòdross; dregs; rubbish
• 糟了zāo legosh!; oh no!; darn!
• 糟心zāo xīnvexed; annoyed; upset
• 糟践zāo jianto waste; to spoil; to destroy
• 糟透zāo tòuin a bad state; horrible; dreadful
• 糟溜黄鱼zāo liū huáng yústir-fried yellow fish filet
• 糟溜黄鱼片zāo liū huáng yú piànstir-fried yellow fish filet
• 糟糠zāo kāngchaff, husks, distillers' dregs etc (food eaten by the poor); (fig.) rubbish; junk
• 糟糠妻zāo kāng qīwife who goes through the hardships of poverty with her husband
• 糟踏zāo tàvariant of 糟蹋

Words containing 糟

• 乱七八糟luàn qī bā zāo(idiom) chaotic; in disorder; muddled
• 乱糟糟luàn zāo zāochaotic; topsy turvy; a complete mess
• 一团糟yī tuán zāochaos; bungle; complete mess
• 弄糟nòng zāoto spoil; to mess up
• 污糟wū zāofilthy; unhygienic; squalid
• 酒糟jiǔ zāodistiller's grain; wine lees
• 酒糟鼻jiǔ zāo bírosacea (dermatological condition of the face and nose); brandy nose
• 去其糟粕qù qí zāo pòto remove the dross; to discard the dregs
• 醪糟láo zāosweet fermented rice; glutinous rice wine
• 一团乱糟yī tuán luàn zāoa chaotic mess
• 乌七八糟wū qī bā zāoeverything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess; obscene
• 取其精华，去其糟粕qǔ qí jīng huá , qù qí zāo pòtake the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan)…
• 污七八糟wū qī bā zāovariant of 乌七八糟

Characters built on 曹

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

• 遭zāoto suffer; to meet with (usu. misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
• 槽cáotrough; manger; groove
• 嘈cáobustling; tumultuous; noisy
• 漕cáoto transport (esp. grain) by water; (literary) watercourse; canal
• 螬cáoused in 蛴螬
• 蹧zāosee 蹧蹋
• 艚cáoseagoing junk

Characters that look like 糟

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

• 穆mùsolemn; reverent; calm
• 赠zèngto give as a present; to repel; to bestow an honorary title after death (old)
• 磺huángsulfur
• 擂léito pound (with a mortar and pestle); to hit (a person); to beat (a drum)…
• 踵zhǒngto arrive; to follow; heel
• 躇chúused in 踌躇

Sounds the same

Read zāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 遭to suffer; to meet with (usu. misfortune); classifier for events: time, turn, incident
• 傮finish, to go around
• 蹧see 蹧蹋