砸
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to smash; to pound; to fail; to muck up; to bungle
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,409 U+7838
How 砸 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
石 (semantic, “rock”) + 匝 (phonetic, zā)
How to remember it
smash · Heisig RSH #2676
石 stone + box + 巾 towel
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 匝
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 匝 (zā) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 匝 sound component | zā | full circle; to encircle |
| 咂 | zā | to suck, to smack the lips |
Words containing 砸
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 搬起石头砸自己的脚 | bān qǐ shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo | to crush one's own foot while trying to maneuver a rock (to a cliff edge, to drop on one's… |
| 搬石头砸自己的脚 | bān shí tou zá zì jǐ de jiǎo | to move a stone and stub one's toe; to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom) |
| 乱石砸死 | luàn shí zá sǐ | to stone to death |
| 砸场子 | zá chǎng zi | to create a disruption at an event or venue |
| 砸锅卖铁 | zá guō mài tiě | to be willing to sacrifice everything one has (idiom) |
| 打砸 | dǎ zá | to smash up; to vandalize |
| 砸死 | zá sǐ | to crush to death |
| 砸破 | zá pò | to break; to shatter |
| 砸钱 | zá qián | to spend big (on sth); to pour a lot of money into sth |
| 考砸 | kǎo zá | to flunk; to fail a test |
| 搬砖砸脚 | bān zhuān zá jiǎo | to hurt oneself by one's own doing; to boomerang; to shoot oneself in the foot (idiom) |
| 砸锅 | zá guō | to fail |
| 砸坏 | zá huài | to smash; to shatter |
| 砸碎 | zá suì | to pulverize; to smash to bits |
| 砸烂 | zá làn | to smash |
| 砸毁 | zá huǐ | to destroy; to smash |
| 小婊砸 | xiǎo biǎo zá | (slang) little biyatch (variation of 小婊子) |
| 砸醒 | zá xǐng | to jolt sb awake |
| 搞砸 | gǎo zá | to mess (sth) up; to foul up; to spoil |
| 砸夯 | zá hāng | to pound the earth to make a building foundation |