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糟蹋

zāo tà

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

糟蹋 (zāo tà) means "to waste; to defile; to abuse". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 糟蹋 means

1. to waste; to spoil
2. to ruin; to wreck
3. to insult; to humiliate
4. to defile (a woman); to rape
5. also pr. zāo ta

The characters in 糟蹋

• 糟zāodregs; draff; pickled in wine
• 蹋tàto step on

Example sentences

• 没有什么比早泄更糟蹋生活的了
  Méiyǒushénme bǐ zǎoxiè gèng zāotà shēnghuó de le
  There is no greater insult to life than premature ejaculation.
• 没有什幺比早泄更糟蹋生活的了
  There is no greater insult to life than premature ejaculation.
• 佳人不可唐突，好酒不可糟蹋，这两件事你以后一定要牢记在心。
  Jiā rén bù kě tángtū, hǎo jiǔ bù kě zāotà, zhè liǎng jiàn shì nǐ yǐhòu yīdìng yào láojì zài xīn.
  You should not be rude towards beauties and you should not waste good wine. You must keep these two things in mind in the future.

Sounds the same

Read zāo tà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 糟踏variant of 糟蹋
• 蹧塌variant of 糟蹋
• 蹧蹋variant of 糟蹋

Where 糟蹋 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zàn–zēng (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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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zāo tà correctly.
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