坐 (Zuò): meaning and stroke order
坐 (Zuò) means surname Zuo, to sit, to take a seat, to take (a bus, airplane etc), to bear fruit.
坐
- Simplified
- 坐
- Traditional
- 坐 (same form)
- Pinyin
- Zuò
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Stroke order of 坐
坐
- Zuò surname Zuo
- zuò to sit; to take a seat
- 7 strokes
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Meaning of 坐
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Zuò
- surname Zuo
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zuò
- to sit
- to take a seat
- to take (a bus, airplane etc)
- to bear fruit
- variant of 座[zuo4]
Radical and structure
- 坐
- Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 7 strokes · built from 从 and 土
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
Words with 坐
- 坐下 zuò xia to sit down
坐 in our stories
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林东坐出租车去医院。
Lín Dōng zuò chūzūchē qù yīyuàn
Lin Dong takes a taxi to the hospital.
From the story Taking a taxi HSK 1
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保罗坐了十二个小时的飞机。
Bǎoluó zuò le shí'èr gè xiǎoshí de fēijī
Paul flew for twelve hours.
From the story At the airport HSK 2
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小春每天坐在电脑前面工作，很少运动。
Xiǎochūn měitiān zuò zài diànnǎo qiánmiàn gōngzuò hěn shǎo yùndòng
Xiaochun works at a computer all day and rarely exercises.
From the story A little more every day HSK 2
Where you learn it
坐 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 坐
- Taking a taxi HSK 1
- At the airport HSK 2
- A little more every day HSK 2
- New Year at Grandma and Grandpa's HSK 2
- The train to Xi'an HSK 3
- The honest answer HSK 3
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).