坐
坐 in English
- to sit / to take a seat / to take (a bus, airplane etc) / to bear fruit / variant of 座[zuo4]
Measure word
- 个 gè (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier); (bound form) individual attested in use
- 张 zhāng to open up; to spread; sheet of paper; classifier for flat objects, sheet; classifier for votes attested in use
- 次 cì next in sequence; second; the second (day, time etc); secondary; vice-; sub-; infra-; inferior quality; substandard... attested in use
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 11 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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Ken坐在我旁边。
Ken sat next to me.
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Tom总是想坐在第一排。
Tom always wants to sit in the front row.
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一個美麗的女人坐在我前面一排。
A beautiful woman was seated one row in front of me.
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不要坐在上面。
Don't sit on it.
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从苏黎世到波士顿坐飞机要八个小时，但是返回时只要六个。
It takes eight hours to fly from Zurich to Boston, but only six for the return trip.
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从这里坐车，要花两个小时才能到我叔叔家。
It's a two-hour drive from here to my uncle's house.
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他和他朋友坐在长凳上。
He and his friend sat on the bench.
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他坐在两张椅子上。
He is sitting on two chairs.