(zhe) - progressive/continuous aspect marker in Mandarin
zheTraditional: 著
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
红裙。
She is wearing a red dress.
。
The door is open.
。
They talk as they walk.
。
He walked into the classroom smiling.
，风。
The window is open, the wind blows in.
Appears in 6 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 着.
Used in
Stories
(1)Grammar articles
(8)Mandarin Aspect Markers: 了, 在/正在, 过 - the System That Replaces Tense
Mandarin Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page
Mandarin Co-verbs: 从, 到, 在, 用, 坐, 给 - the Prepositions That Look Like Verbs
Mandarin Verb Conjugation: Why It Doesn't Exist and What Replaces It
The Double 了 Sentence in Mandarin: 我学了三年中文了 and the Continuing-Action Pattern
The Mandarin Durative 着 (zhe): Marking a State That Continues (门开着, 拿着书, 笑着说)
The Experiential 过 (guò) in Mandarin: Saying You Have Ever Done Something
Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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