在 - Mandarin word #6

在

zài

Traditional: 在

HSK 1

#6 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

at, in, on; to be located at; progressive marker

Stroke order

在

。

I am at home.

视shì。

He is watching television.

桌zhuō。

The book is on the table.

园yuán耍shuǎ。

The children are playing in the garden.

。

The answer is in this book.

在 (zài) marks location, existence, or an action in progress, and is one of the most used words in Mandarin.

里

inside, in, within

上

up, above, on; to go up; to attend

下

below, down, under, next

有

to have, there is/are

着

progressive/continuous aspect marker

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 在.

Track this word in your spaced-repetition queue and be tested on it at the right interval.

This word is part of lesson 1.