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铡

zhá

Character Traditional 鍘

What 铡 means

1. lever-style guillotine
2. to chop using this type of guillotine

Words starting with 铡

• 铡刀zhá dāolever-style guillotine (for chopping fodder etc)

Words containing 铡

• 龙头铡lóng tóu zhálever-style guillotine decorated with a dragon's head at the hinged end, used to behead…

Sounds the same

Read zhá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 闸sluice; sluice gate; to dam up water; (colloquial) brake
• 炸to deep fry; (colloquial) to blanch (a vegetable); Taiwan pr. zhà
• 札thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China)…
• 轧to roll (steel)
• 扎used in 挣扎
• 甴used in 曱甴
• 蚻Aphrophora martima
• 霅rain

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