糟糕 zāogāo▶ แย่จัง, น่าเสียดาย

Stroke order

糟糕 is written in 33 strokes across 2 characters.

• 糟 — 17 strokes
• 糕 — 16 strokes

Senses

1. too bad
2. how terrible
3. what bad luck
4. terrible
5. bad

Related words

• 糟蹋สิ้นเปลือง; ทำลาย
• 蛋糕เค้ก

糟糕 is pronounced zāogāo and means “แย่จัง, น่าเสียดาย”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 糟糕 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.