to prick / to run or stick (a needle etc) into / mug or jug used for serving beer (loanword from "jar")

= + : James II of England (zh) uses a toy claw (扌) to stick (扎) a shovel (乚) into the earth in front of the ashram (a1).
penetrating (as of cold) / struggle
variant of 紮|扎[za1]
variant of 紮|扎[zha1]
to tie / to bind / classifier for flowers, banknotes etc: bundle / Taiwan pr. [zha2]

= + : Zorro (z) unearthed a bundle of flowers in front of the ashram (a1) using a shovel (乚), and now he's binding (扎) them into a bundle using a toy claw (扌).
(of troops) to be stationed (at) / Taiwan pr. [zha2]
used in 挣扎[zheng1 zha2]

扎 character breakdown

component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 毫[hao2] / archaic variant of 乙[yi3]

Mnemonic symbol: a shovel (乚). Remember it by imagining Maud Younger (y) shoveling a grave in the ashram's bathroom (a4).
"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.

Characters with 扎 as component

variant of 紮|扎[zha1]
variant of 紮|扎[za1]

Words with 扎

to wrap up / to pack / to bind up (a wound)
variant of 包紮|包扎[bao1 za1]
deathbed struggle / final struggle (idiom)
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
to set up camp / Taiwan pr. [an1 ying2 zha2 zhai4]
(Colonel Muammar) Gaddafi (1942-2011), de facto leader of Libya from 1969-2011
Hamid Karzai (1957-), Afghan politician, president 2004-2014
Jianzha County in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 黃南藏族自治州|黄南藏族自治州[Huang2 nan2 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai
Jianzha County in Huangnan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture 黃南藏族自治州|黄南藏族自治州[Huang2 nan2 Zang4 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Qinghai
Taza (a city in northern Morocco)

Sentences with 扎

扎 currently does not appear in any sentence.