炸 zhàzhá HSK6 to fry in oil, explode Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 乍 represents the sound. Components 火 火 Meaning component huǒ fire 乍 乍 Sound component zhà, zuò suddenly Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangʔr'aːɡszreːb Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang