咋 — Chinese character
咋
zǎ
question-forming particle: why? what? how?; to bite; loud
- Pinyin
- zǎ
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 口 乍
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 乍
- Japanese
- 咋 as a kanji
Common words with 咋
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 咋舌 | zé shé | (literary) to be speechless |
| 咋呼 | zhā hu | bluster; ruckus |
| 不咋地 | bù zǎ de | (dialect) not that great; not up to much |
| 不咋的 | bù zǎ de | (dialect) not that great; not up to much |
| 叽咋柳莺 (嘰咋柳鶯) | jī zǎ liǔ yīng | (bird species of China) common chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.