砸 meaning in English

zá

to smash; to pound

HSK 7-9verb10 strokes

Meaning of 砸

Definitions from CC-CEDICT.

zá
  1. to smash
  2. to pound
  3. to fail
  4. to muck up
  5. to bungle

砸 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

令lìng我wǒ非fēi常cháng伤shāng心xīn的de是shì她tā考kǎo砸zá了le。
She failed the examination and I was greatly disappointed.
他tā们men把bǎ箱xiāng子zi砸zá成chéng了le碎suì片piàn。
They knocked the box to pieces.
我wǒ搞gǎo砸zá了le第dì一yí个gè音yīn符fú。
I screwed up the very first note.
他tā砸zá坏huài的de是shì这zhè扇shàn窗chuāng。
This is the window he broke.
有yǒu人rén把bǎ我wǒ新xīn车chē的de挡dǎng风fēng玻bō璃lí砸zá碎suì了le。
Someone broke the windscreen of my new car.

Stroke order for each character

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砸 zá · to smash · 10 strokes

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Related words

Words that share a character with 砸.

搞砸gǎozáto mess (sth) up; to foul up
砸碎zásuìto pulverize; to smash to bits
砸死zásǐto crush to death
砸烂zálànto smash

Questions about 砸

What does 砸 mean?

砸 (zá) means "to smash; to pound" and is used as a verb.

How do you write 砸?

砸 is made of 1 character: 砸 (10 strokes). That is 10 strokes in total.

Is 砸 an HSK word?

Yes. 砸 is on the HSK 7-9 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.