Ninchanese

Ninchanese is the best way to learn Chinese.
Try it for free.

Sign me up

11 strokes
Simplified (switch to Traditional)

着 (著)

zhāo

Definition

(chess) move
trick
all right!
(dialect) to add

Other pronunciations

着	zhe	particle (indicating an action in progress) grammatical word auxiliary
着	zháo	to touch to come in contact with to feel to be affected by to catch fire to burn (coll.) to fall asleep (after a verb) hitting the mark succeeding in
着	zhuó	to wear (clothes) to contact to use to apply

Character Decomposition

Related words (5)

move (in chess, on stage, in martial arts); gambit; trick; scheme; movement; same as 招数

move in chess; movement in martial arts

unwise move; miscalculation

the same old trick; illegal device

what?; how?; how about?; whatever; also pr. [zen3 me5 zhe5]

Idioms (1)

qí gāo yī zhāo

to be a step ahead of the opponent (idiom); to outsmart one's opponent

Oh noes!

An error occured, please reload the page.
Don't hesitate to report a feedback if you have internet!

You are disconnected!

We have not been able to load the page.
Please check your internet connection and retry.

Retry