咋 Definitions — Dong Chinese Dictionary

zǎzézhāzhà

question-forming particle

咋 zǎ

how: (dialect) how; why; equivalent to 怎么 zěnme

咋 zé

to bite: (literary) (bound form) to bite down on; to gnaw

咋 zhā

to shout: (dialect) to shout or bluster; to boast; to brag

like this: (dialect) this way; like this; equivalent to 这样 zhèyàng

咋 zhà

to burst: (archaic) (bound form) to burst with anger; to flare up

Cross-References

Same as

怎么 zěnme
这样 zhèyàng

Frequency

Character

Written text: 2,830th most common 12.3 per million
Movie subtitles: 2,467th most common 9.09 per million appears in 5% of films

Word

Movie subtitles: 12.5 per million appears in 5% of films
Written text: 31.0 per million

Details

HSK 2.0: Level 6
Strokes: 8
Unicode: U+548B

Sources

Frequency data: MTSU Chinese text computing SUBTLEX-CH BCC Corpus (BLCU)