Chinese word dictionary

扎穿

zhā chuān · to prick; to puncture

Practice word

Word information

Simplified扎穿

Traditional扎穿

Pinyinzhā chuān

Part of speechDictionary

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Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

扎zhā

to bind, to wrap; to pierce; to stop

穿chuān

to drill, to pierce; to dress, to wear

How to learn 扎穿

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Related vocabulary

Words with the same characters

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穿chuān

to wear; to put on; to dress; to bore through; to pierce; to perforate; to penetrate; to pass through; to thread

穿过chuānguò

to pass through

扎zhā

(of troops) to be stationed (at); Taiwan pr. [zha2]; to prick; to run or stick (a needle etc) into; mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from "jar"); variant of 紮|扎[zha1]

包扎bāozā

to wrap up; to pack; to bind up (a wound); variant of 包紮|包扎[bao1 za1]

穿梭chuānsuō

to travel back and forth; to shuttle

穿越chuānyuè

to pass through; to traverse; to cross