| 糟 | zāo | dregs; draff; pickled in wine; rotten; messy; ruined |
| 糟糕 | zāo gāo | too bad; how terrible; what bad luck; terrible; bad |
| 糟粕 | zāo pò | dross; dregs; rubbish; fig. useless residue |
| 糟蹋 | zāo tà | to waste; to defile; to abuse; to insult; to defile; to trample on; to wreck; also pr. [zao1 ta5] |
| 乱七八糟 | luàn qī bā zāo | everything in disorder (idiom); in a hideous mess; at sixes and sevens |
| 酒糟 | jiǔ zāo | distiller's grain; wine lees |
| 一团糟 | yī tuán zāo | chaos; bungle; complete mess; shambles |
| 乱糟糟 | luàn zāo zāo | chaotic; topsy turvy; a complete mess |
| 去其糟粕 | qù qí zāo pò | to remove the dross; to discard the dregs |
取其精华，
去其糟粕 | qǔ qí jīng huá ,
qù qí zāo pò | take the cream, discard the dross (political and educational slogan); keep what is good, discard the rest; You need to be selective when studying.; In modernizing the country, don't accept uncritically all foreign ideas. |
| 弄糟 | nòng zāo | spoil |
| 污七八糟 | wū qī bā zāo | everything in disorder; in a hideous mess; obscene; dirty; filthy (idiom); also written 乌七八糟 |
| 乌七八糟 | wū qī bā zāo | everything in disorder; in a hideous mess; obscene; dirty; filthy (idiom) |
| 糟溜黄鱼 | zāo liū huáng yú | stir-fried yellow fish filet |
| 糟溜黄鱼片 | zāo liū huáng yú piàn | stir-fried yellow fish filet |
| 糟糠 | zāo kāng | chaff; grain husk |
| 糟踏 | zāo tà | variant of 糟蹋 |
| 糟透 | zāo tòu | in a bad state; horrible; dreadful; entirely regrettable |
| 糟齿类爬虫 | zāo chǐ lèi pá chóng | thecodontia (primitive dinosaur) |
| 酒糟鼻 | jiǔ zāo bí | rosacea (dermatological condition of the face and nose); brandy nose |
| 馕糟 | nǎng zāo | to stuff oneself with forage; forage eating livestock |
