(zhù) - to live (reside), to stay in Mandarin
zhùTraditional: 住
Translation
to live (reside), to stay
Word origin
住 (zhù) 'to live, reside, to stay' is a phono-semantic compound with the 亻(rén, 'person') radical and 主 (zhǔ) as the phonetic, a person dwelling in a place.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 亻(rén, 'person' radical) + 主 (zhǔ, phonetic)
Stroke order
住
Examples
？
Where do you live?
。
I live in the city.
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He lives here.
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We stayed for a week.
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She lives near my home.
住 (zhù) means to live (reside), to stay. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.
Where this fits
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 住.
Used in
Stories
(9)Grammar articles
(5)The Double 了 Sentence in Mandarin: 我学了三年中文了 and the Continuing-Action Pattern
Formal Mandarin Connectives: 然而, 因此, 于是 and 尽管 (The Written Register)
The Two 了 in Mandarin: Completion 了 After the Verb vs Change-of-State 了 at the End
Mandarin Potential Complements: Can You Reach the Result? (吃得完, 听不懂, 买不起)
Mandarin Resultative Complements: Fusing a Result onto the Verb (看见, 吃完, 找到)
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