咋
zǎzézhā

question-forming particle

咋 zǎ frequency
how pronoun
dialectal equivalent of how or why (equivalent to 怎么 zěn​me)

你咋还没走？

nǐ zǎ hái méi zǒu?

Why haven't you left yet?

咋 zé
bite pronoun
(literary) to bite; to gnaw

听到这个惊人的消息，在场的人都不禁咋舌。

tīng​dào zhè​ge jīng​rén de xiāo​xi, zài​chǎng de rén dōu bù​jīn zé​shé.

Upon hearing the shocking news, everyone present was left speechless.

咋 zhā
bluster pronoun
used in the word 咋呼 zhā​hu, meaning to shout, bluster, or make a racket

他总是喜欢在走廊里大声咋呼，吵得邻居不得安宁。

tā zǒng​shì xǐ​huan zài zǒu​láng lǐ dà​shēng zhā​hu, chǎo de lín​jū bù​dé ān​níng.

He always likes to make a racket in the hallway, disturbing the neighbors' peace and quiet.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)