Etymology

zao

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Today it means: To leave hastily, to take off. Full definition →

Hokkien 走
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The story

  1. Hokkien · borrowed from走“to run”
  2. English todayzao

From Hokkien 走 (cháu, “to run”), with Pinyin-based spelling.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.