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砸

Mandarin · pinyin zá

to smash
to pound
to fail
to muck up
to bungle

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砸: zá · smash, crush, break; pound, mash

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2 · za2

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

zaak3 · zaap3

Cantonese word readings for 砸. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

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character · Etymology 1

(of falling objects) to crush; to smash
to bash; to smash
to break; to destroy
to throw; to toss
(dialectal Mandarin) to sew with a sewing machine
(colloquial) to flop; to fail; to fall through
to spend a lot of money

character · Etymology 2

(Cantonese) alternative form of 矺 (“to press down on; to weigh down”)

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