紮
zházhāzā HSK6

tie

扎 zhá frequency
variant 紮
to struggle verb
(bound form) used in the word 挣扎 zhēng​zhá, meaning to struggle
扎 zhā
variants 紥,紮
to prick verb
to prick; to pierce; to run or stick a needle into something

我手指上扎了一根刺。

wǒ shǒu​zhǐ shang zhā le yī gēn cì.

I got a splinter in my finger.

to be stationed verbnoun
to be stationed or quartered, usually referring to troops; to camp
扎 zā
variants 紥,紮
to tie verb
to tie; to bind; to fasten or wrap around with string or ribbon

你现在为何不扎头发了？

nǐ xiàn​zài wèi​hé bù zā tóu​fa le?

Why don't you tie up your hair anymore?

她的头发用黑缎带扎在后面。

tā de tóu​fa yòng hēi duàn​dài zā zài hòu​miàn.

Her hair was tied back with a black ribbon.

bundle
[classifier] used for small bundles of items such as flowers or yarn; equivalent to 捆 kǔn
扎 zhā
variant 紮
jar
[classifier] a measure of beer; a mugful

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Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
7,658th most common 0.026 per million
Word
Movie subtitles
19.6 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
32.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+7D2E

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingBCC Corpus (BLCU)