在
zài HSK1

be at

在 zài
be at preposition
to be located at or in a specific place

我就在学校门口。

wǒ jiù zài xué​xiào mén​kǒu.

I am right at the school gate.

in progress adverb
used before a verb to indicate an action currently in progress

他在写作业。

tā zài xiě zuò​yè.

He is doing his homework.

at preposition
used to indicate a specific time or place
exist verb
to exist, be alive, or be present

他爷爷已经不在了。

tā yé​ye yǐ​jīng bù zài le.

His grandfather has passed away.

lie in verb
to consist in or lie in; to depend on

Cross-References

Has old variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
6th most common 10383.1 per million
Movie subtitles
12th most common 11664.3 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
12811.0 per million appears in 100% of films
Written text
10498.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5728

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