扎

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See also: 紮
扎 U+624E, 扎
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-624E
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 		CJK Unified Ideographs 扏 →

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)

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

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.
Note:
  • chah - vernacular;
  • chat - literary.
Note: zag4 - “to fasten, to tie, to bind”, used in 掙扎 and 扎掙).
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/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʈ͡ʂat̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zha
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zaat3
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

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:

References

Japanese

Kanji

扎

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

扎 (eum 찰 (chal))

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Vietnamese

Han character

扎: Hán Nôm readings: trát

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