砸

zá

verb HSK 7 #955

Meanings

1 to smash
2 to pound
3 to break
4 to fail (colloquial)

Characters

to smash; to pound

Examples

他一拳砸碎了窗户的玻璃。

Tā yì quán zásuìle chuānghù de bōli.

He smashed the window glass with one punch.

这次考试砸了。

Zhè cì kǎoshì zá le.

I bombed this exam.

Tips

usage

砸 can mean physically smashing something, but colloquially it also means to mess up or fail at something (砸了 = 'blew it').

Stroke Order

砸 zá