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zhā

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zhā Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
zhā | zha1
English translation
raft; to hew, to fell trees

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About zhā

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Number of strokes

13

Traditional form

zhā

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

wood

Etymology of zhā

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

木查

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

Zhā

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Example sentences using zhā

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zhǐ 布谷鸟 bù gǔ niǎo 开始 kāishǐ zài 一株山楂 shān zhā shù 咕咕 de 呼叫 hū jiào .

A cuckoo began calling from a hawthorn tree.

于是 yúshì 他们 tā men 怀着忐忑不安 tǎn tè bù ān de 心情 xīnqíng , 穿过 chuān guò 山楂 shān zhā cóng , zǒu xià 山坡 shān pō .

With beating hearts, they descended through the hawthorns.

xiǎo 路上 lù shang 很多地方 dìfāng dōu 长满 zhǎng mǎn le 山楂树

Much of the track had become overgrown with hawthorn.

Words with zhā

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
山楂 shān zhā rose hip (hawthorn fruit)山楂 shān zhā
zhā raft zhā

zhā Decomposition & Compounds

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