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扎

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to prick; to run or stick (a needle etc) into; mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from "jar")

4 strokes Dict coverage rank #1,052 U+624E

How 扎 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

A hand 扌 tying a bundle with string 乚

components: 扌 乚

How to remember it

prick · Heisig RSH #1836

fingers + fishhook

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words containing 扎

WordPinyinMeaning
马扎尔语 Mǎ zhā ěr yǔ Magyar (language); Hungarian
点子扎手 diǎn zi zhā shǒu (coll.) one's adversary is very tough
巴尔扎克 Bā ěr zhā kè Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
扎格罗斯 Zā gé luó sī Zagros mountains of southwest Iran
扎尔达里 Zā ěr dá lǐ Asif Ali Zardari (1956-), Pakistani People's Party politician, widower of murdered Benazir…
扎格罗斯山脉 Zā gé luó sī shān mài Zagros mountains of southwest Iran
马扎尔 Mǎ zhā ěr Magyar; Hungarian
阿布扎比 Ā bù zhā bǐ Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
普罗扎克 Pǔ luó zhā kè Prozac (also marketed as Fluoxetine)
扎克伯格 Zhā kè bó gé Mark Zuckerberg (1984-), American computer programer, co-founder and CEO of Facebook
卡尔扎伊 Kǎ ěr zā yī Hamid Karzai (1957-), Afghan politician, president 2004-2014
扎线带 zā xiàn dài cable ties; zip ties
纳扎尔巴耶夫 Nà zhā ěr bā yē fū Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan 1990-2019
莫扎里拉 mò zhā lǐ lā (loanword) mozzarella
扎心 zhā xīn heartrending; deeply distressing
马扎 mǎ zhá campstool; folding stool (with fabric stretched across the top to sit on)
扎马鲁丁 Zā mǎ lǔ dīng see 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁[Za1 ma3 la2 ding1]
扎伊尔 Zhā yī ěr Zaire, former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
洛扎县 Luò zhā Xiàn Lhozhag, a county in Shannan City 山南市[Shan1 nan2 Shi4], Tibet
扎眼 zhā yǎn garish; dazzling; offensively conspicuous