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蚱

zhà

Character

What 蚱 means

1. grasshopper

Example sentences

• 那不是蚂蚱。是蝗虫！
  Nà bù shì màzha. shì huángchóng!
  That's not a grasshopper. It's a locust!
• 那不是蟋蟀。是蚂蚱！
  That's not a cricket, that's a grasshopper.
• 我们是一根绳上的蚂蚱。
  We're in the same boat.
• 我喜欢那只蚱蜢发出的声音！
  I love the sound this grasshopper makes!

Words starting with 蚱

• 蚱蜢zhà měnggrasshopper
• 蚱虫zhà chónggrasshopper

Words containing 蚱

• 蚂蚱mà zha(dialect) locust; grasshopper
• 蚂蚱也是肉mà zha yě shì ròulit. even a locust provides some nourishment (idiom); fig. it's better than nothing
• 一条绳上的蚂蚱yī tiáo shéng shàng de mà zhalit. grasshoppers tied together with a piece of string (idiom)…
• 一根绳上的蚂蚱yī gēn shéng shàng de mà zhasee 一条绳上的蚂蚱

Characters built on 乍

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

• 炸zhàto burst; to explode; to blow up; to bomb; (colloquial) to fly into a rage
• 诈zhàto cheat; to swindle; to pretend
• 咋zǎdialectal equivalent of 怎么; Taiwan pr. zé
• 砟zhǎfragments
• 柞zhàused in 柞水
• 痄zhàmumps

Characters that look like 蚱

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

• 称chēngto weigh; to state; to name
• 衅xìnquarrel; dispute; a blood sacrifice (arch.)
• 蛎lìoyster
• 蚌bàngmussel; clam
• 蚪dǒuused in 蝌蚪
• 蛞kuòused in 蛞蝼; used in 蛞蝓

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
• 咤used in 叱咤
• 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