炸
zhàzhá HSK6

to fry in oil, explode

炸 zhà frequency
explode verb
to burst, explode, blow up, or bomb

气球突然炸了。

qì​qiú tū​rán zhà le.

The balloon suddenly popped.

rage verb
to fly into a rage

听了这话，他当场就炸了。

tīng le zhè huà, tā dāng​chǎng jiù zhà le.

He exploded with anger on the spot after hearing that.

scatter verb
to scamper off or scatter

人群惊慌地炸开了。

rén​qún jīng​huāng de zhà​kāi le.

The crowd scattered in panic.

炸 zhá
fry verb
to deep fry in hot oil

他在厨房里炸薯条。

tā zài chú​fáng lǐ zhá shǔ​tiáo.

He is frying french fries in the kitchen.

blanch verb
to briefly scald or boil a vegetable

他把土豆切成条放进热油里炸，直到表面金黄酥脆。

tā bǎ tǔ​dòu qiē​chéng tiáo fàng​jìn rè yóu lǐ zhá, zhí dào biǎo​miàn jīn​huáng sū​cuì.

He cut the potatoes into strips and deep-fried them in hot oil until they were golden and crispy.

Frequency
Character
Written text
976th most common 168.2 per million
Movie subtitles
754th most common 168.4 per million appears in 34% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
50.3 per million appears in 15% of films
Written text
25.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
9
Unicode
U+70B8

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