坐
zuò HSK1

sit

坐 zuò
to sit verb
to sit; to take a seat; to rest one's weight on one's buttocks

你坐到我朋友身上了。

nǐ zuò dào wǒ péng​you shēn​shang le.

You're sitting on my friend.

不要坐在病人的床上。

bù​yào zuò zài bìng​rén de chuáng shang.

Do not sit on the patient’s bed.

to travel by verb
to travel by; to take (a bus, plane, boat, or other form of transport)

我们这次坐火车去吧。

wǒ​men zhè​cì zuò huǒ​chē qù ba.

Let's take the train this time.

我妈妈非常害怕坐飞机。

wǒ mā​ma fēi​cháng hài​pà zuò fēi​jī.

My mom is terrified of flying.

to be punished nounverb
(literary) to be punished for a crime; to be sentenced; to be involved in a legal case
to be situated verb
to be situated with the back toward a certain direction (of a building); to be located
seat noun
(bound form) a seat or place; used as a variant of 座 zuò
to put on a fire
to put a pot, kettle, or pan on a fire or stove
to subside
to sink or subside due to pressure; to recoil or kick back (of a gun)
to bear fruit
to bear fruit; to form seeds
because of
(literary) because of; owing to; for the reason that
Zuo
a Chinese surname
to develop an illness
(of a disease or medical condition) to take root; to become chronic
to preside over
to be in charge of; to manage or preside over
to receive without effort
to receive or enjoy the benefits of something without having worked for it
in vain
(literary) for no reason; in vain; for nothing

Cross-References

Variant of

Frequency
Character
Written text
611th most common 342.6 per million
Movie subtitles
358th most common 418.7 per million appears in 83% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
423.4 per million appears in 75% of films
Written text
201.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5750

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