Character Details
| sit (to); ride | Ascii: — | w206 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 坐 | zuò | djawh | 4 | 土 (earth) + 从 (follow) → sit | 坐 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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When the assembly line gets tired they go outside to sit on the soil because it's nice and soft. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - This character shows two people sit ting on the soil | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - (Please) have a seat; please sit | - Can I sit here? | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 36 - 土 | tǔ | earth | earth | ground mound | 土 地 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 土 (earth) + 从 (follow) → sit | 土 (semantic origin) | 从 (phonetic origin) | two people sitting on earth | ||||||||