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Mythic Mandarin

坐下 (zuò xia): meaning and stroke order

坐下 (zuò xia) means to sit down.

坐下

Simplified
坐下
Traditional
坐下 (same form)
Pinyin
zuò xia

Stroke order of 坐下

坐

  • Zuò surname Zuo
  • zuò to sit; to take a seat
  • 7 strokes

Stroke by stroke

下

  • xià down; downwards
  • 3 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 坐下

  1. zuò xia
    • to sit down

Radicals of the characters

坐
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 7 strokes · built from 从 and 土
下
Radical 一 (Kangxi radical 1) · 3 strokes · 一 on top, 卜 below

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.

坐下 in our stories

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  • 对方的销售总监老郝一坐下，就递过来一张新报价：原材料涨价，所有产品统一上调百分之十五。

    duìfāng de xiāoshòu zǒngjiān lǎo Hǎo yí zuòxia jiù dì guòlai yì zhāng xīn bàojià yuáncáiliào zhǎngjià suǒyǒu chǎnpǐn tǒngyī shàngtiáo bǎi fēn zhī shíwǔ

    As soon as the supplier's sales director, Old Hao, sat down, he handed over a new quote: raw materials had gone up, so every product would rise by fifteen percent across the board.

    From the story A minute of silence HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 邱大姐示意他坐下，问这棵树有多少年了。郝大爷沉默了一会儿，声音低了下来。

    Qiū dàjiě shìyì tā zuòxia wèn zhè kē shù yǒu duōshao nián le Hǎo dàye chénmò le yíhuìr shēngyīn dī le xiàlai

    Sister Qiu gestured for him to sit and asked how old the tree was. Mr Hao was silent a while, and his voice dropped.

    From the story The persimmon tree over the wall HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 坐下

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).