紮
zāzhā HSK6

tie

扎 (紮) zā frequency
tie verb
to tie or bind

她用丝带把头发扎了起来。

tā yòng sī​dài bǎ tóu​fa zā le qi​lai.

She tied her hair up with a ribbon.

bundle measure word
classifier for things tied in a bunch, such as flowers or banknotes

花瓶里插着一扎红玫瑰。

huā​píng lǐ chā zhe yī zā hóng méi​guī.

There is a bunch of red roses in the vase.

扎 (紮) zhā
station idiom
(of troops) to be stationed at a specific location

为了守住入城口，军队在桥头扎了下来。

wèi​le shǒu​zhu rù​chéng​kǒu, jūn​duì zài qiáo​tóu zhā le xià​lai.

To guard the entrance to the city, the army set up camp at the bridgehead.

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