# 扎

| 扎 | U+624E, &#25166; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-624E |
| ← 才 [U+624D] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 扏 → [U+624F] |

## Translingual
### Han character

扎 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 手山 (QU) or 難手山 (XQU), four-corner 5201$_0$, composition ⿰扌乚)

#### Derived characters

* 𠯩, 𣲞, 𥾱, 紥, 𧉒

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 417, character 1
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11771
* Dae Jaweon: page 763, character 3
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1825, character 3
* Unihan data for U+624E

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 劜 | *qreːd |
| 札 | *sqriːd |
| 扎 | *sqriːd |
| 蚻 | *ʔsriːd |
| 紮 | *ʔsriːd |
| 軋 | *qriːd |
| 圠 | *qriːd |
| 穵 | *qriːd, *qʷriːd |
| 挖 | *qʷriːd |
| 鳦 | *qriːd, *qrid |
| 耴 | *ŋrid, *teb |
| 乙 | *qriɡ |
| 肊 | *qrɯɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sqriːd) : semantic 手 + phonetic 乙 (OC *qriɡ).

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Standard)
       (Pinyin): zhā, zā, zhá (zha$^1$, za$^1$, zha$^2$)
       (Zhuyin): ㄓㄚ, ㄗㄚ, ㄓㄚˊ
    (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): za$^2$
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zaat$^3$ / zaap$^3$
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): zah$^6$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): chah / chat
    (Teochew, Peng'im): zab$^4$ / zag$^4$ / za$^4$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^7$tsaq
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhā
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄚ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jha
*** Wade–Giles: cha$^1$
*** Yale: jā
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ja
*** Palladius: чжа (čža)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂä⁵⁵/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zā
*** Zhuyin: ㄗㄚ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: za
*** Wade–Giles: tsa$^1$
*** Yale: dzā
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tza
*** Palladius: цза (cza)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡sä⁵⁵/
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: zhá
*** Zhuyin: ㄓㄚˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: jhá
*** Wade–Giles: cha$^2$
*** Yale: já
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jar
*** Palladius: чжа (čža)
*** Sinological IPA : /ʈ͡ʂä³⁵/
* zhā - “to stab, to prick, to puncture”;
* zā (Mainland), zhá (Taiwan) - “to fasten, to tie, to bind”;
* zhā (Mainland), zhá (Taiwan) - “to be stationed”;
* zhá - used in 掙扎 and 扎掙.
* Middle Chinese: tsreat
Rime :
| Character | 扎 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 莊 (18) |
| Final (韻) | 鎋 (75) |
| Tone (調) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 側八切 |
| Baxter | tsreat |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /t͡ʃˠɛt̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ʈ͡ʂᵚæt̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /t͡ʃæt̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ʈ͡ʂəɨt̚/ |
| Li Rong | /t͡ʃɛt̚/ |
| Wang Li | /t͡ʃæt̚/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ʈ͡ʂat̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | zha |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | zaat$^3$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*sqriːd/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 扎 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 14911 |
| Phonetic component | 乙 |
| Rime group | 質 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 札 |
| Old Chinese | /*sqriːd/ |
| Notes | 札分化字，注出家語而今本爲札 |

#### Definitions

扎
* Alternative form of 札
** (Classical) to pull
* to stab; to prick; to puncture
* to tie; to fasten; to bundle
* to be stationed; to be quartered (of troops)
* (loanword) Classifier for jars.

#### Compounds

* 一扎腳
* 也克先拜巴扎 (Yěkèxiān Bàibāzhā)
* 乞力馬扎羅山／乞力马扎罗山
* 刀割針扎
* 匾扎
* 半扎
* 垂死掙扎
* 安扎
* 扎乎
* 扎住 (zhāzhù)
* 扎嘴
* 扎堆 (zhāduī)
* 扎墊
* 扎實
* 扎心 (zhāxīn)
* 扎手 (zhāshǒu)
* 扎手舞腳
* 扎括
* 扎掂
* 扎掙
* 扎撒
* 扎根 (zhāgēn)
* 扎槍
* 扎煞
* 扎猛子 (zhāměngzi)
* 扎瓦 (Zhāwǎ)
* 扎眉扎眼
* 扎眼 (zhāyǎn)
* 扎空槍
* 扎窩子
* 扎筏子
* 扎縛
* 扎罰子
* 扎耳朵
* 扎腳
* 扎腦門兒／扎脑门儿
* 扎花
* 扎草
* 扎針 (zházhēn)
* 托克扎克 (Tuōkèzhākè)
* 抄扎
* 拽扎
* 排先拜巴扎 (Páixiānbàibāzhā)
* 掙扎 (zhēngzhá)
* 眼扎毛
* 瞎扎呼
* 立扎
* 阿扎西 (āzhāxī)
* 麻扎塔格 (Mázhātǎgé)
* 點扎

### Etymology 2

* For pronunciation and definitions of 扎 – see 紮 (“to tie; to bind; bundle; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 紮).
* Notes:Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore.Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

### References

* “扎”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
* 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “扎”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 297.

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
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#### Readings

* On (unclassified): さつ (satsu)、あつ (atsu)
* Kun: ぬく (nuku)、かまえる (kamaeru)

## Korean
### Hanja

扎 (eum 찰 (chal))
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## Vietnamese
### Han character

扎: Hán Nôm readings: trát
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