住
zhù HSK1

reside

住 zhù
to live verb
to live; to reside; to stay; to dwell

我一辈子都住在这里。

wǒ yī​bèi​zi dōu zhù zài zhè​lǐ.

I've lived here all my life.

也许他只是想住一晚。

yě​xǔ tā zhǐ​shì xiǎng zhù yī wǎn.

Maybe he just wanted to stay the night.

[firmness] particle
(complement) indicating a state of firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt

你所要做的就是坚持住。

nǐ suǒ yào zuò de jiù​shì jiān​chí zhù.

All you have to do is hold on.

[ability] particle
(complement) used with 得 de or 不 bù to indicate the capacity or lack thereof to withstand, hold on, or handle something

我藏不住秘密。

wǒ cáng bù zhù mì​mì.

I cannot keep a secret.

to stop verbnoun
(bound form) to stop; to cease; to halt
Zhu
(surname) Zhu
to stand
(of a person) to stand; to stay in a place

Frequency
Character
Written text
309th most common 715.8 per million
Movie subtitles
215th most common 821.5 per million appears in 96% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
584.3 per million appears in 83% of films
Written text
301.4 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+4F4F

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)