咤 — Chinese character
咤
zhà
to scold; to shout, to roar, to bellow
- Pinyin
- zhà
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 口 宅
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 宅
- Traditional
- 吒
- Japanese
- 咤 as a kanji
Common words with 咤
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 叱咤 | chì zhà | to rebuke angrily |
| 叱咤风云 (叱咤風雲) | chì zhà fēng yún | lit. to rebuke Heaven and Earth (idiom); fig. shaking the whole world; all-powerful |
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.