扎 zhā▶ ผูก, เนคไท; เสมอ

Stroke order

扎 is written in 4 strokes.

• 扎

Senses

1. to prick
2. to run or stick (a needle etc) into
3. mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from "jar")

Related words

• 扎实แข็ง; เป็นของแข็ง
• 挣扎ดิ้นรน, ต่อสู้
• 驻扎ประจำการ

扎 is pronounced zhā and means “ผูก, เนคไท; เสมอ”. You will meet it in HSK 6, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 扎 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.