(zhe) - progressive/continuous aspect marker in Mandarin

zhe

Traditional: 著

HSK 3

#66 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

progressive/continuous aspect marker

Word origin

着 (zhe), here the continuous aspect marker, derives from the character 著 (zhù/zhuó) 'to attach, to wear'. The graph contains the 艹 (grass) element over 者 (zhě) as phonetic; in modern simplified writing 着 split off as the aspectual reading.

Origin: phono-semantic compound
Root: 艹 (grass element) + 者 (zhě, phonetic); aspectual use from 著

Stroke order

着

Examples

红hóng裙qún。

She is wearing a red dress.

。

The door is open.

。

They talk as they walk.

。

He walked into the classroom smiling.

，风fēng。

The window is open, the wind blows in.

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Appears in 6 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 着.

活着huó zheto be alive, to live (ongoing)跟着gēn zhefollowing, in the wake of 意味着yì wèi zheto mean, to signify, to imply 穿着chuān zheto be wearing, attire 接着jiē zhethen, next, to carry on 睡着shuì zháoto fall asleep, to be asleep

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This word is part of lesson 2.