札 (zhá): thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China), a kind of official document (in former times)
札 (zhá) is a Chinese character meaning “thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient china).” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 木 (structural) and 乚 (structural). It ranks #3548 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Definitions
- thin piece of wood used a writing tablet (in ancient China)
- a kind of official document (in former times)
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 札幌proper-noun | zhá huǎng | Sapporo, Japan |
| 札记noun | zhá jì | reading notes |
| 札达proper-noun | zhá dá | see 札達縣|札达县 |
| 札格雷布 | zhá gé léi bù | (Tw) Zagreb, capital of Croatia |
| 波札那proper-noun | bō zhá nà | (Tw) Botswana |
| 札格瑞布proper-noun | zhá gé ruì bù | (Tw) Zagreb, capital of Croatia |
| 札马鲁丁 | zhá mǎ lǔ dīng | see 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁 |
| 莫札特proper-noun | mò zhá tè | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Austrian composer (Tw) |
| 手札noun | shǒu zhá | (literary) personal letter |
| 信札noun | xìn zhá | letter |
| 吞米桑布札 | tūn mǐ sāng bù zhá | Tunmi Sanghuzha (6th century AD), originator of the Tibetan script |
| 札达县 | zhá dá xiàn | Zanda, a county in Ngari Prefecture 阿里地區|阿里地区, Tibet |
| 书札noun | shū zhá | letter |
| 札马剌丁 | zhá mǎ lá dīng | see 紮馬剌丁|扎马剌丁 |
| 玉札 | yù zhá | great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis), a plant whose root is used in TCM |
札 appears in 16 compound words: 50 as the first character, 38 as the last, and 13 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
这片森札里生活着许多珍稀的野生动物。
zhè piàn sēn zhá lǐ shēng huó zhe xǔ duō zhēn xī de yě shēng dòng wù .
This forest is home to many rare wild animals.
从北京到札幌，往返直飞机票只要 2000 出头，从家里出发转机北京，价格一样。
cóng běi jīng dào zhá 幌 , wǎng fǎn zhí fēi jī piào zhī yāo 2 0 0 0 chū tóu , cóng jiā lǐ chū fā zhuǎn jī běi jīng , jià gé yī yàng .
A round-trip direct flight from Beijing to Sapporo costs just over 2,000, and the price is the same if you fly from home with a layover in Beijing.
...rnia,来判断你的耳机好坏。#波哥听音札记#hifi#耳机推荐#加州旅馆 #音质...
. . . r n i a , lái pàn duàn nǐ de ěr jī hǎo huài . bō gē tīng yīn zhá jì h i f i ěr jī tuī jiàn jiā zhōu lǚ guǎn yīn zhì . . .
...rnia, to determine the quality of your headphones. #Boge's Listening Notes #hifi #headphone recommendations #Hotel California #sound quality...
Character Family
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