咤

Cantonese · source Jyutpingcaak1#

Meanings · caak1

  1. to rebuke angrily
Cantonese · source Jyutpingzaa1#

Meanings · zaa1

  1. part of the name of Nezha, a figure in Chinese legend
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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading difference from Unihan

  • 咤 has the reading caak1 here; Unihan’s citation reading is zaa1. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 咤 caak1 as its own entry.

Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).

Same syllable, six tones

caakcaak1—caak2—策caak3policycaak4—caak5—贼caak6thief

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

  • 咤 zhà CC-CEDICT · Mandarinused in 叱咤 chì zhà

A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: zha4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

zaa3

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

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CC-Canto · Pleco Inc. · edition 2017-02-02
Source lines 26,416, 26,417 · Original publisher · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Edition & transformations

Original source comment: adapted from cc-cedict

Original source comment: adapted from cc-cedict

Mandarin comparison: CC-CEDICT 2026-10-13, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source reading differences and six-tone sets: computed by zimai from Unihan 17.0.0 (Unicode License V3).

Exact source records & identity咤 咤 [zha4] {caak1} /to rebuke angrily/ # adapted from cc-cedict

SHA-256: c7f632f9130d96a3c8eee4e1ad66012391873e539e10a6010134578ee3f1833a

咤 咤 [zha4] {zaa1} /part of the name of Nezha, a figure in Chinese legend/ # adapted from cc-cedict

SHA-256: 20626ebeaa0d454dd41f95f142294786f3c1475caebad13d106ec38644d93003