(zuò) - to sit, to take a seat; to travel by in Mandarin

zuò

Traditional: 坐

HSK 2

#349 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

to sit, to take a seat; to travel by

Word origin

A single character meaning to sit. It is an associative ideograph showing two people (从) seated on the ground (土, earth) below, depicting people sitting facing each other on the floor. The picture of two figures on the earth captures the act of sitting.

Origin: ideograph
Root: 从 (two people) over 土 (tǔ, earth / ground)

Stroke order

坐

Examples

。

Please sit down.

。

Let's take the bus.

落luò。

He is sitting in the corner.

。

He likes travelling by train.

。

Everyone please sit properly and stop talking.

坐 (zuò) - to sit, to take a seat; to travel by.

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Appears in 2 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 坐.

坐下zuò xiàto sit down 坐在zuò zàito sit at, to sit in

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This word is part of lesson 7.