(zhe) - progressive/continuous aspect marker in Mandarin

zhe

Traditional: 著

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HSK 2
#66 of 2,700Core 1000

Translation

progressive/continuous aspect marker

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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

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Examples

。

She is wearing a red dress.

。

The door is open.

。

They talk as they walk.

。

He walked into the classroom smiling.

,。

The window is open, the wind blows in.

Where this fits

Appears in 6 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 着.

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着: worksheet, infographic and listicle

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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 8: 着, 个, 看 and 7 more words.