咗

咗	U+5497, 咗 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5497

← 咖
[U+5496]

CJK Unified Ideographs

咘 →
[U+5498]

Translingual

Han character

咗 (radical 30 口+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 口大一 (RKM), composition ⿰口左)

References

KangXi: not present, would follow page 185, character 21

Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 599, character 4

Unihan data for U+5497

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		咗
alt. forms		唨 rare 阻 rare 左 nonstandard o左 internet

First attested in 《散語四十章》 (1877) as 阻 (Yue, 2004).

Probably from 著; the pronunciation may be due to influence from Mandarin zhuó (Chan, 1998).

Chan (1995) proposes that the original character is 𧇣 (MC d͡zuo^H, “to go”); others (including Jimmy Pang and Chapman Chan) have similarly proposed 徂 (MC d͡zuo, “to go”) to be the original character. These derivations are phonologically and semantically problematic.

Pronunciation

Cantonese (Jyutping): zo²

Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zo²
  - Yale: jó
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzo²
  - Guangdong Romanization: zo²
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡sɔː³⁵/

Definitions

咗

(Cantonese) Used to emphasise an action which has been completed and whose result still applies to the present situation. It roughly translates to the past tense in English.

佢哋啱啱走咗。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
Keoi⁵ dei⁶ ngaam¹ ngaam¹ zau² zo². [Jyutping]
They left just now.

阿媽尋日煲咗湯。佢而家去咗超級市場買餸。 [Cantonese, trad.]
阿妈寻日煲咗汤。佢而家去咗超级市场买𩠌。 [Cantonese, simp.]
Aa³ maa¹ cam⁴ jat⁶ bou¹ zo² tong¹. Keoi⁵ ji⁴ gaa¹ heoi³ zo² ciu¹ kap¹ si⁵ coeng⁴ maai⁵ sung³. [Jyutping]
My mum made soup yesterday. Now, she has gone grocery shopping in the supermarket.

食咗就冇 [Cantonese] ― sik⁶ zo² zau⁶ mou⁵ [Jyutping] ― if you eat it there will not be any more

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 了 (“perfective particle”) [map]
Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		了
Mandarin	Beijing	了
	Taiwan	了
	Malaysia	了
	Singapore	了
Cantonese	Guangzhou	咗
	Hong Kong	咗
	Taishan	敢、啊
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	了
	Liudui (S. Sixian)	了
	Hsinchu (Hailu)	了
	Dongshi (Dabu)	了
	Zhuolan (Raoping)	了
	Yunlin (Zhao'an)	矣
Min Nan	Xiamen	啦、咯
	Quanzhou	咯
	Taipei	矣、啦
Wu	Shanghai	仔、了
Wu	Wenzhou	罷、爻

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		咗

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): zuo (zuo⁵)

(Zhuyin): ˙ㄗㄨㄛ

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: zuo
  - Zhuyin: ˙ㄗㄨㄛ
  - Wade-Giles: tso⁵
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: .tzuo
  - IPA ^(key): /d͡z̥u̯ɔ/

Definitions

咗

A chant sound made while working.

Compounds

嘿咗

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