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住

zhù

Traditional: 住

HSK 2
#250 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to live (reside), to stay

Stroke order

Stroke order for 住

住

Examples

？

Where do you live?

。

I live in the city.

。

He lives here.

。

We stayed for a week.

。

She lives near my home.

住 (zhù) means to live (reside), to stay. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.

Related words

地方

place, location, area

回家

to go home, to return home

家

home, family, household

那里

there, over there, that place

生活

life, to live, livelihood

Appears in 3 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 住.

抓住zhuā zhùto grab, to catch, to seize; to grasp (an opportunity)记住jì zhùremember, commit to memory住手zhù shǒustop it, hands off

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This word is part of lesson 5.