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

zhàn

Traditional: 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

站

Examples

。

Please stand up.

。

We have arrived at the train station.

口kǒu。

He is standing at the doorway.

。

Please stand up and answer the question.

口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.

站住zhàn zhùhalt, stop, stand still

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This word is part of lesson 8.