炸 · zhà
to fry in oil; to scald; to explode
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
to fry in oil; to scald; to explode
- Mandarin
- zhà
- Cantonese
- zaa3
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 炸 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Reading sources explained
- 작
- KS X 1001 (0) · Personal-name Hanja (N)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+70B8
- Radical
- 火 · 86
- Strokes
- 9 · Unihan
- Residual
- 5
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
9 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 炸
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Component roles · attributed
- 乍 sound component · CJKVI analysis
Source analysis · 乍聲
Line 1593 · ⿰火乍 · 乍聲
Source analyses, kept separate from modern IDS. CJKVI labels are not individually verified historical conclusions. Evidence & limits ↗
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- zhà
- kCantonese
- zaa3
- kDefinition
- to fry in oil; to scald; to explode
- kTotalStrokes
- 9
- kRSUnicode
- 86.5
- kGradeLevel
- 5
- kTGH
- 2013:1656
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- zhà,zhá 32196.010
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- zhá 1448.020 · zhà 1449.010
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- zhá 462.100 · zhà 463.070
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- zhà(114)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- zhà粵zaa3 zhá粵zaa3