坐 (zuò)
To sit; to take (a bus, airplane, etc.).
How 坐 is written
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 土 — earth
- Traditional
- 坐
- Simplified
- 坐 (unchanged)
Components
- 土 earth
- 从 N/A
Common words using 坐
- 乘坐 chéngzuò
- to ride (in a vehicle)
- 坐下 zuòxia
- sit down
- 坐立不安 zuòlìbùān
- lit. agitated sitting or standing (idiom); restless; fidgety
- 坐車 zuòchē
- to take the car, bus, train etc
- 圍坐 wéizuò
- to sit in a circle; seated around (a narrator)
- 坐井觀天 zuòjǐngguāntiān
- lit. to view the sky from the bottom of a well (idiom); ignorant and narrow-minded
- 坐享其成 zuòxiǎngqíchéng
- to reap where one has not sown (idiom)
- 坐以待斃 zuòyǐdàibì
- to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate
- 坐像 zuòxiàng
- seated image (of a Buddha or saint)
- 坐化 zuòhuà
- to die in a seated posture (Buddhism)
- 坐墊 zuòdiàn
- cushion; (motorbike) seat; CL:塊|块[kuai4]
- 坐失 zuòshī
- to let sth slip by; to miss an opportunity
坐 in a sentence
請坐，別客氣。
Qǐng zuò, bié kèqì.
“Please sit down, don't be polite.”
How common is 坐?
坐 is the 611th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 80% of all running text.
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