咋

See also 昨

Translingual

Han character

咋 (radical 30 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口人尸 (ROS), four-corner 6801₁)

1. question-forming particle, why? how? what?
2. to bite
3. loud

References

• KangXi: page 184, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3488
• Dae Jaweon: page 404, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 601, character 9
• Unihan data for U+548B

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Cantonese

Hanzi

咋 (Yale ja1, ja3 jaak3)

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Japanese

Kanji

咋

Readings

• On: さく (saku), さ (sa)
• Kun: くう (kuu), くらう (kurau), かむ (kamu)

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Korean

Hanja

咋 (hangeul 사, revised sa, McCune-Reischauer sa)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

咋 (pinyin zé (ze2), zhà (zha4), Wade-Giles tse², cha⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

咋 (trách, chạ, chá, chách, cha)