| 杂 | zá | mixed; miscellaneous; various; to mix |
| 杂质 | zá zhì | impurity |
| 杂志 | zá zhì | magazine; CL:本,份,期 |
| 杂交 | zá jiāo | a hybrid |
| 杂草 | zá cǎo | weeds |
| 杂种 | zá zhǒng | hybrid; mixed breed; bastard; son-of-a-bitch |
| 杂物 | zá wù | junk; items of no value; various bits and bobs |
| 杂技 | zá jì | acrobatics; CL:场 |
| 杂音 | zá yīn | noise |
| 杂居 | zá jū | cohabitation (of different populations or races); to coexist |
| 杂乱 | zá luàn | in a mess; in a jumble; chaotic |
| 杂剧 | zá jù | a Yuan dynasty form of musical comedy |
| 杂货 | zá huò | groceries; miscellaneous goods |
| 杂记 | zá jì | various notes or records; a miscellany; scattered jottings |
| 杂粮 | zá liáng | grain crops other than rice and wheat |
| 杂文 | zá wén | essay |
| 杂色 | zá sè | varicolored; motley |
| 杂乱无章 | zá luàn wú zhāng | disordered and in a mess (idiom); all mixed up and chaotic |
| 杂感 | zá gǎn | random thoughts (a literary genre) |
| 杂费 | zá fèi | incidental costs; sundries; extras |
| 杂说 | zá shuō | scattered essays; various opinions; different manners of speaking |
| 杂七杂八 | zá qī zá bā | an assortment; a bit of everything; lots of different (skills) |
| 杂交植物 | zá jiāo zhí wù | hybrid plant |
| 杂交派对 | zá jiāo pài duì | sex party; orgy |
| 杂件 | zá jiàn | miscellaneous goods |
| 杂件儿 | zá jiànr | miscellaneous goods |
| 杂剧四大家 | zá jù sì dà jiā | Four great Yuan dramatists, namely: Guan Hanqing 关汉卿, Zheng Guangzu 郑光祖, Ma Zhiyuan 马致远 and Bai Pu 白朴 |
| 杂务 | zá wù | various jobs; low-grade work |
| 杂和面 | zá huo miàn | corn flour mixed with a little soybean flour |
| 杂和面儿 | zá huo miànr | erhua variant of 杂和面 |
| 杂噪 | zá zào | a clamor; a din |
| 杂多 | Zá duō | Zadoi county (Tibetan: rdza stod rdzong) in Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture 玉树藏族自治州, Qinghai |
| 杂多县 | Zá duō xiàn | Zadoi county (Tibetan: rdza stod rdzong) in Yushu Tibetan autonomous prefecture 玉树藏族自治州, Qinghai |
| 杂婚 | zá hūn | mixed marriage |
| 杂家 | Zá Jiā | Miscellaneous School of Thought of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) whose leading advocate was Lü Buwei 吕不韦[Lu:3 Bu4 wei2] |
| 杂居地区 | zá jū dì qū | area of mixed habitation |
| 杂工 | zá gōng | a porter; an odd-job man |
| 杂店 | zá diàn | magazine store |
| 杂役 | zá yì | odd jobs; part-time worker |
| 杂念 | zá niàn | distracting thoughts |
| 杂戏 | zá xì | acrobatics; entertainment at folk festival |
| 杂技演员 | zá jì yǎn yuán | acrobat |
| 杂拌 | zá bàn | mixed dried fruits; fig. a hotchpotch |
| 杂拌儿 | zá bànr | erhua variant of 杂拌, mixed dried fruits; fig. a hotchpotch |
| 杂沓 | zá tà | small craftsman (contemptuous); clatter (e.g. of footsteps); jumbled mass; press of bodies; tumult |
| 杂流 | zá liú | small craftsman (contemptuous) |
| 杂凑 | zá còu | to put together various bits; to knock sth together |
| 杂烩 | zá huì | a stew; fig. a disparate collection |
| 杂牌 | zá pái | inferior brand; not the genuine article |
| 杂牌儿 | zá páir | erhua variant of 杂牌, inferior brand; not the genuine article |
