坐 zuò — to sit
坐
Level 1 · Common HSK 1 #797
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Detailed explanation
verb
- (会意。《说文》古文作象形字，象两人坐在土上。本义:人的止息方式之一。古人席地而坐，坐时两膝着地，臀部压在脚跟上)
- sit
- sit e.g 坐堂 坐地 · 坐上客 · 坐啸 · 坐拜 · 坐右 · 坐列 · 坐思 · 坐起 · 坐静 · 坐饮 · 坐催
- be seated e.g 坐膺 · 坐办 · 坐馆
- be punished e.g 反坐连坐 妄坐 · 坐大辟 · 坐假 · 坐法 · 坐死
- commit a crime
- stay e.g 坐窝子
- guard e.g 坐夜 坐索 · 坐阵 · 坐铺
- recoil e.g 步枪的坐劲不小
- sink e.g 这房子向下坐了
- put e.g 坐垫 坐一壶水 · 坐钟 · 把壶坐上
- travel by e.g 我走旱路坐车，走水路坐船，走泥路坐撬，走远路坐飞机、坐火车 · 坐马
noun
- seat e.g 满坐儿 · 这个剧场有五千个坐儿 · 坐上 · 坐上客
- sitting e.g 一坐就读了一本书
conjunction
- because e.g 坐此解职 · 坐是 · 坐怀
Related words
- 乘坐 to ride; to take (a vehicle)
- 坐落 to be situated/to be located (of a building)/also written 座落
- 坐标 coordinate (geom.)/also written 座标
- 坐镇 to sit in personal command; to be stationed at the helm
- 端坐 to sit upright
- 坐牢 to be imprisoned
- 围坐 to sit around
- 静坐 to sit quietly/to meditate/to sit-in (demonstration)
- 坐视 to sit by and watch; to look on indifferently
- 坐立不安 restless; on tenterhooks
- 坐等 to sit and wait
- 坐骑 a mount; a riding horse
- 坐椅 chair; seat
- 平起平坐 to sit as equals; to be on equal footing
- 危坐 to sit upright and solemnly
- 跌坐 to collapse into a seat; to drop down and sit
- 席地而坐 to sit on the ground
- 正襟危坐 to sit solemnly with upright posture
- 坐标系 coordinate system
- 坐堂 to sit in formal session (an old-style official); (of a doctor) to practice at a