Radical 木

6 strokes

雜

several 九 (38) + tree 木 (10a) = mixed 杂

This character and the following five have pronunciations beginning with “z” for which there are no sensible words in english to use as soundwords. We have collected them together here, and while we could make up another “trick” for remembering them, it is probably simpler if you just treat them as DIY pronunciations.

The baseball has got stuck in the tree; when you climb up to get it, you find all kinds of stuff mixed together up there. / [DIY pronunciation]