(zuò) - to sit, to take a seat; to travel by in Mandarin
zuòTraditional: 坐
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.
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Let's take the bus.
落。
He is sitting in the corner.
。
He likes travelling by train.
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Everyone please sit properly and stop talking.
坐 (zuò) - to sit, to take a seat; to travel by.
Appears in 2 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 坐.
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