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(zhàn) - to stand; station, stop in Mandarin

zhàn

Traditional: 站

Line drawing of 站
Coloured illustration of 站
HSK 3
#369 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to stand; station, stop

Word origin

站 (zhàn) 'to stand; station' is a phono-semantic compound combining 立 (lì, 'to stand') as the meaning element with 占 (zhàn) as the phonetic. The 立 element is itself a pictograph of a person standing on the ground.

Origin
phono-semantic compound
Root
立 (lì, 'to stand') + 占 (zhàn, phonetic)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 站

Examples

Please stand up.

We have arrived at the train station.

kǒu

He is standing at the doorway.

Please stand up and answer the question.

kǒu

He stood at the door for a long time.

站 (zhàn) - to stand; station, stop.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 站.

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