zuò

坐

to sit / travel by

HSK 2.0 · 1 HSK 3.0 · 1
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Taught in your lessons 课程

出行与方位Lesson 6 · Transport & Places vocab 交通Lesson 16 · Getting Around 在饭馆Lesson 18 · At the Restaurant 去旅游Lesson 24 · Travelling 在哪儿HSK 3.0 · Lesson 8 · Where Is It? 怎么去HSK 3.0 · Lesson 9 · How Do I Get There? vocab 请进HSK 3.0 · Lesson 17 · Come In! vocab

Words with 坐

坐下 zuò xia to sit down HSK 1
请坐 qǐng zuò please, have a seat HSK 1
乘坐 chéng zuò to ride (in a vehicle) HSK 5
坐落 zuò luò to be situated; to be located (of a building) HSK 7–9

Examples from your lessons

  • 我坐出租车去。 I'll go by taxi. Lesson 6
  • 从北京到上海坐飞机。 Go from Beijing to Shanghai by airplane. Lesson 6
  • 知道。你可以坐出租车去，很快。 Yes. You can take a taxi, it's very fast. Lesson 6
  • 很远。走路去不行，你可以坐公共汽车。 Very far. You can't walk; you can take the bus. Lesson 16
  • 欢迎光临！请坐。 Welcome! Please sit down. Lesson 18
  • 坐飞机比坐火车快多了。 Flying is much faster than taking the train. Lesson 24

Character facts

Radical
土 soil, earth; items made of earth
Parts
从 + 土
Structure
Overlaid
Unicode
U+5750

Ideographic: Two people 从 sitting on the ground 土

Same radical 土
zài 在 de 地 kuài 块 huài 坏 chǎng 场 qiáng 墙 chéng 城 tǔ 土
Same sound
zuò 做 zuǒ 左 zuò 座 zuò 作
Also HSK 1
de 的 le 了 wǒ 我 shì 是 nǐ 你 zài 在 bù 不 yǒu 有