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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zá | za2
English translation
to smash
to pound
to fail
to muck up
to bungle
to smash, to pound, to crush, to break

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Number of strokes

10

Traditional form

Contains the radical

Shí

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

Learning hint

rock

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

石匝

Semantic compound

Shí

Phonetic compound

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他们 tā men de 聚会 jùhuì lòng le ,这个 zhè ge zuì 怎么 zěnme péi 得起 ya ?

How can I ever make amends for ruining their party?

冰雹 bīngbáo měng ,玻璃窗 le .

Hail fell with such violence that it broke windows.

最后 zuìhòu , héng le xīn 把门 bǎ mén kāi .

In desperation, he finally broke down the door.

我们 wǒmen 不得不 bùdébù Mén kāi 逃避 táobì 火灾 huǒ zāi .

We had to break the door out to escape from the fire.

yòng 大锤 dà chuí le .

She killed him by a sledgehammer.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
to smash
砸碎 zá suì to pulverize砸碎 zá suì
砸烂 zá làn to smash砸爛
砸死 zá sǐ to crush to death砸死 zá sǐ
搞砸 gǎo zá to foul up搞砸 gǎo zá
砸破 zá pò to break砸破 zá pò
砸毁 zá huǐ to destroy砸毀
砸锅卖铁 zá guō mài tiě to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom)砸鍋賣鐵
搬起石头砸自己的脚 bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo hoisted by one's own petard搬起石頭砸自己的腳
砸锅 zá guō to fail砸鍋
搬砖砸脚 bān zhuān zá jiǎo to boomerang搬磚砸腳

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