坐 zuò▶ ngồi

Stroke order

坐 is written in 7 strokes.

• 坐

Senses

1. to sit
2. to take a seat
3. to take (a bus, airplane etc)
4. to bear fruit

Example sentences

• 请坐。Qǐng zuò.Please sit down.
• 我坐出租车去学校。Wǒ zuò chūzūchē qù xuéxiào.I take a taxi to school.

Related words

• 乘坐cưỡi

坐 is pronounced zuò and means “ngồi”. You will meet it in HSK 1, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 坐 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.