(zhàn) - to stand; station, stop in Mandarin
zhànTraditional: 站
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。
He is standing at the doorway.
。
Please stand up and answer the question.
口。
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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(8)Grammar articles
(5)Mandarin Co-verbs: 从, 到, 在, 用, 坐, 给 - the Prepositions That Look Like Verbs
Compound Directional Complements in Mandarin: Verb + 起来, 下去, 过来, 出来 and Motion Relative to the Speaker
Figurative Directional Complements in Mandarin: 起来, 下去 and 出来 Beyond Up, Down and Out
The Mandarin Durative 着 (zhe): Marking a State That Continues (门开着, 拿着书, 笑着说)
Mandarin Resultative Complements: Fusing a Result onto the Verb (看见, 吃完, 找到)
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