MEANING/意义
      
  • zāo
      
    sound for pinyin
      
      
    bad; poor; rotten; decayed; in a mess; to damage; distiller's grains; to pickle with distiller's grains or in wine; terrible (task) ; to destroy (by melting or burning) 
    Type adjective/形容词; character/汉字  
        
EXAMPLES/列句
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    tài zāo gāo la !
      
    sound for pinyin
    How terrible! How bad! (of situation or incident) 

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    mù tou zāo le
      
    sound for pinyin
    The wood is rotten.
COMBINATIONS/组合
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    zāo gāo
      
    sound for pinyin
    bad; awful; terrible; what bad luck!

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    zāo gāo
      
    sound for pinyin
    bad; too bad; how terrible; what bad luck; terrible (task) 

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    zāo ta
      
    sound for pinyin
    to abuse; to spoil; to waste; to wreck; to defile; to insult; to despoil; to slander; to trample on

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    zāo pò
      
    sound for pinyin
    dregs; dross; rubbish; waste matter

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    zāo tā
      
    sound for pinyin
    ruin; waste (time) 

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    zāo huò
      
    sound for pinyin
    cooked food marinated in rice wine

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    zāo liū
      
    sound for pinyin
    (cooking method)  to stir-fried or stew in rice wine

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    zāo le
      
    sound for pinyin
    Woops!; That is too bad; (things)  turn bad
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