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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扎* | 扎* | *扎
to prick / to run or stick (a needle etc) into / mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from "jar")
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扎* | 扎* | *扎
(of troops) to be stationed (at) / Taiwan pr. [zha2]
HSK 6
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扎* | 扎* | *扎
variant of 紮|扎
HSK 6
strong / solid / sturdy / firm / practical
HSK 6
variant of 扎實|扎实
HSK 6
to wrap up / to pack / to bind up (a wound)
HSK 7-9
to struggle
HSK 7-9
variant of 包紮|包扎
HSK 7-9
to take root
HSK 7-9
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扎* | 扎* | *扎
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扎* | 扎* | *扎
to tie / to bind / classifier for flowers, banknotes etc: bundle / Taiwan pr. [zha2]
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *扎* | 扎* | *扎
variant of 紮|扎
Zhalantun, county-level city in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia
Abu Dhabi, capital of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
to bind / to wrap up / (computing) binding
to tie up / to bind up / (medicine) to ligate / (of a male) to have a vasectomy (ligation of the vasa deferentia) / (of a female) to have one's tubes tied (tubal ligation)
to tie-dye
to go steady and strike hard (in fighting) / fig. steadily and surely
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Austrian composer
(of people) to flock together; to congregate
to give or have an acupuncture treatment
Hamid Karzai (1957-), Afghan politician, president 2004-2014
to station / to garrison (troops)
to camp / to pitch camp / stationed / quartered / Taiwan pr. [zha2 ying2]
Jalaid or Zhalaid (name) / Jalaid banner, Mongolian Zhalaid khoshuu, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟, east Inner Mongolia
Jarud banner or Jarud khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
(Colonel Muammar) Gaddafi (1942-2011), de facto leader of Libya from 1969-2011
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
deathbed struggle / final struggle (idiom)
garish / dazzling / offensively conspicuous
Jianzha County in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 黃南藏族自治州|黄南藏族自治州, Qinghai
Zaire, former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
to set up camp / Taiwan pr. [an1 ying2 zha2 zhai4]
Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan 1990-2019
to swim with head submerged
Condoleezza Rice (1954-), US Secretary of State 2005-2009
pincushion
cable tie
heartrending / deeply distressing
(onom.) crunch (of marching feet etc)
bazaar (loanword)
to stop / Taiwan pr. [zha3 zhu4]
Mark Zuckerberg (1984-), American computer programer, co-founder and CEO of Facebook
to prick / to puncture
cable ties / zip ties
firm / solid / reliable / real / practical
Zhalantun, county-level city in Hulunbuir 呼倫貝爾|呼伦贝尔, Inner Mongolia
Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
Zagros mountains of southwest Iran
Magyar / Hungarian
Jalaid banner, Mongolian Zhalaid khoshuu, in Hinggan league 興安盟|兴安盟, east Inner Mongolia
(slang) to obtain money; to earn money
Jarud banner or Jarud khoshuu in Tongliao 通遼|通辽, Inner Mongolia
(coll.) one's adversary is very tough
Zagros mountains of southwest Iran
Taza (a city in northern Morocco)
thick / dense
Jianzha County in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 黃南藏族自治州|黄南藏族自治州, Qinghai
draft beer
solid progress
Asif Ali Zardari (1956-), Pakistani People's Party politician, widower of murdered Benazir Bhutto, president of Pakistan from 2008-2013
to bundle up with rope (e.g. firewood) / to secure with rope (e.g. suitcases on the roof of a car) / to strap down
Prozac (also marketed as Fluoxetine)
(dialect) awesome / excellent
strong / sturdy / awesome
to set up an encampment
Jamal al-Din ibn Muhammad al-Najjari (13th century), famous Persian astronomer and scholar who served Khubilai Khan 忽必烈 from c. 1260
(loanword) mozzarella
Lake Urmia, northwest Iran, a major salt lake / formerly called lake Rezaiyeh
Magyar (language) / Hungarian
campstool / folding stool (with fabric stretched across the top to sit on)


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