渣 — Chinese character
渣
zhā
dregs, sediment; refuse, slag
- Pinyin
- zhā
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 氵 查
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 查
- Japanese
- 渣 as a kanji
Common words with 渣
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人渣 | rén zhā | dregs of society; scum |
| 残渣 (殘渣) | cán zhā | remainder; filtered out residue |
| 废渣 (廢渣) | fèi zhā | industrial waste product; slag |
| 渣滓 | zhā zǐ | residue; dregs |
| 豆腐渣 | dòu fu zhā | okara (i.e. soy pulp, a by-product of making soymilk or tofu) |
| 矿渣 (礦渣) | kuàng zhā | slag (mining) |
| 渣子 | zhā zi | dregs; bits |
| 煤渣 | méi zhā | slack |
| 炉渣 (爐渣) | lú zhā | furnace slag; ashes from a stove |
| 豆渣 | dòu zhā | okara (i.e. soy pulp, a by-product of making soymilk or tofu) |
| 油渣 | yóu zhā | crisp residue left after rendering animal fat; (esp.) pork cracklings |
| 蔗渣 | zhè zhā | bagasse (sugar cane waste) |
English words written with 渣
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.