扎

See also: 紮

扎 U+624E, 扎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-624E ← 才 [U+624D] CJK Unified Ideographs 扏 → [U+624F]

Translingual

Han character

扎 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 手山 (QU) or 難手山 (XQU), four-corner 5201₀, composition ⿰扌乚)

Derived characters

• 𠯩, 𣲞, 𥾱, 紥, 𧉒

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 417, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11771
• Dae Jaweon: page 763, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1825, character 3
• Unihan data for U+624E

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (乙) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
劜	*qreːd
札	*sqriːd
扎	*sqriːd
蚻	*ʔsriːd
紮	*ʔsriːd
軋	*qriːd
圠	*qriːd
穵	*qriːd, *qʷriːd
挖	*qʷriːd
鳦	*qriːd, *qrid
耴	*ŋrid, *teb
乙	*qriɡ
肊	*qrɯɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sqriːd) : semantic 手 + phonetic 乙 (OC *qriɡ).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		扎

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): zhā, zā, zhá (zha¹, za¹, zha²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄚ, ㄗㄚ, ㄓㄚˊ

  (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): za²

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaat³ / zaap³
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zah⁶
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chah / chat

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zab⁴ / zag⁴ / za⁴

• Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ⁷tsaq

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhā
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jha
    • Wade–Giles: cha¹
    • Yale: jā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ja
    • Palladius: чжа (čža)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂä⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zā
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: za
    • Wade–Giles: tsa¹
    • Yale: dzā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tza
    • Palladius: цза (cza)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sä⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhá
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄚˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhá
    • Wade–Giles: cha²
    • Yale: já
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jar
    • Palladius: чжа (čža)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂä³⁵/

Note:

• zhā - “to stab, to prick, to puncture”;
• zā (Mainland), zhá (Taiwan) - “to fasten, to tie, to bind”;
• zhā (Mainland), zhá (Taiwan) - “to be stationed”;
• zhá - used in 掙扎 and 扎掙.

• (Chengdu)
  • Sichuanese Pinyin: za²
  • Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: za
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sa²¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zaat³ / zaap³
    • Yale: jaat / jaap
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaat⁸ / dzaap⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: zad³ / zab³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːt̚³/, /t͡saːp̚³/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zah⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saʔ¹/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: zah⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saʔ²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chah / chat
    • Tâi-lô: tsah / tsat
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zaq, zad
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡saʔ³²/, /t͡sat̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡saʔ⁵/, /t͡sat̚⁵/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡saʔ³²/, /t͡sat̚³²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡saʔ³²/, /t͡sat̚³²/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡saʔ³²/, /t͡sat̚³²/

Note:

• chah - vernacular;
• chat - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: zab⁴ / zag⁴ / za⁴
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsap / tsak / tsa
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sap̚²/, /t͡sak̚²/, /t͡sa²/

Note: zag4 - “to fasten, to tie, to bind”, used in 掙扎 and 扎掙).

• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁷tsaq
    • MiniDict: tsah^入
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ⁴tsaq
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /t͡saʔ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsreat

Rime
Character	扎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	莊 (18)
Final (韻)	鎋 (75)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	側八切
Baxter	tsreat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ʃˠɛt̚/
Pan Wuyun	/ʈ͡ʂᵚæt̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ʃæt̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʈ͡ʂəɨt̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ʃɛt̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ʃæt̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʈ͡ʂat̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zha
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zaat3

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*sqriːd/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	扎
Reading #	1/1
No.	14911
Phonetic component	乙
Rime group	質
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	札
Old Chinese	/*sqriːd/
Notes	札分化字，注出家語而今本爲札

Definitions

扎

1. Alternative form of 札
   1. (Classical) to pull
2. to stab; to prick; to puncture
3. to tie; to fasten; to bundle
4. to be stationed; to be quartered (of troops)
5. (loanword) Classifier for jars.

Compounds

• 一扎腳
• 也克先拜巴扎 (Yěkèxiān Bàibāzhā)
• 乞力馬扎羅山／乞力马扎罗山
• 刀割針扎
• 匾扎
• 半扎
• 垂死掙扎
• 安扎
• 扎乎
• 扎住 (zhāzhù)
• 扎嘴
• 扎堆 (zhāduī)
• 扎墊
• 扎實
• 扎心 (zhāxīn)
• 扎手 (zhāshǒu)
• 扎手舞腳
• 扎括
• 扎掂
• 扎掙
• 扎撒
• 扎根 (zhāgēn)
• 扎槍
• 扎煞
• 扎猛子 (zhāměngzi)
• 扎瓦 (Zhāwǎ)
• 扎眉扎眼
• 扎眼 (zhāyǎn)
• 扎空槍
• 扎窩子
• 扎筏子
• 扎縛
• 扎罰子
• 扎耳朵
• 扎腳
• 扎腦門兒／扎脑门儿
• 扎花
• 扎草
• 扎針 (zházhēn)
• 托克扎克 (Tuōkèzhākè)
• 抄扎
• 拽扎
• 排先拜巴扎 (Páixiānbàibāzhā)
• 掙扎 (zhēngzhá)
• 眼扎毛
• 瞎扎呼
• 立扎
• 阿扎西 (āzhāxī)
• 麻扎塔格 (Mázhātǎgé)
• 點扎

 

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 扎 – see 紮 (“to tie; to bind; bundle; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 紮).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

• “扎”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “扎”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 297.

Japanese

Kanji

扎

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

• On (unclassified): さつ (satsu)、あつ (atsu)
• Kun: ぬく (nuku)、かまえる (kamaeru)

Korean

Hanja

扎 (eum 찰 (chal))

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Vietnamese

Han character

扎: Hán Nôm readings: trát

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