咋 – vocab dash

Keyword

question-forming particle: why? what? how?

to bite
loud

Frequency: #1705
Strokes: 8

Readings

zé100%

Mnemonic

口 (mouth) gives the meaning and 乍 the sound.

Stroke order

Composed of

口mouth 乍suddenly

Used in vocabulary

(literary) to bite; to gnaw

Taiwan pr. zé

(literary) to be speechless

bluster; ruckus; to boast loudly