住 zhù — to live, to dwell, to stay; to stop, to halt; (as a verb complement) firmly, fast

拼音

• zhù (fourth tone, falling)

to live, to dwell, to stay; to stop, to halt; (as a verb complement) firmly, fast

字形拆解

• 亻meaning partno entry yetThe person radical: someone is doing the staying.
• 主sound partno entry yet主 zhǔ for the sound; on its own it is a lamp with its flame, hence a master or host.

Mnemonic

A person 亻 with 主 for the sound. Two lives in modern Chinese. As a full verb it is to live somewhere — 你住在哪儿, 住在北京, 住院 to be admitted to hospital. As a resultative complement it means that whatever the verb did, it took hold: 记住 to fix in memory, 站住 stop where you are, 拿住 to get a firm grip.

A memory aid written by HSK Guide editors. It is not an etymology and does not describe the historical origin of the character.

含“住”的词

• 住zhù (fourth tone, falling)长期居住在某个地方
• 抓住zhuā (first tone, high and level) zhù (fourth tone, falling)to grab hold of; to capture
• 记住/記住jì (fourth tone, falling) zhu (neutral tone)to remember
• 居住jū (first tone, high and level) zhù (fourth tone, falling)to reside
• 忍不住rěn (third tone, dipping) bu (neutral tone) zhù (fourth tone, falling)cannot help
• 住院zhù (fourth tone, falling) yuàn (fourth tone, falling)to be in hospital
• 住宅zhù (fourth tone, falling) zhái (second tone, rising)residence
• 住房zhù (fourth tone, falling) fáng (second tone, rising)housing
• 住处/住處zhù (fourth tone, falling) chù (fourth tone, falling)residence; dwelling
• 住宿zhù (fourth tone, falling) sù (fourth tone, falling)to stay at
• 住户/住戶zhù (fourth tone, falling) hù (fourth tone, falling)household
• 站住zhàn (fourth tone, falling) zhù (fourth tone, falling)to stand
• 住址zhù (fourth tone, falling) zhǐ (third tone, dipping)address
• 禁不住jīn (first tone, high and level) bu (neutral tone) zhù (fourth tone, falling)can't help it
• 衣食住行yī (first tone, high and level) shí (second tone, rising) zhù (fourth tone, falling) xíng (second tone, rising)clothing, food, housing and transport (idiom); people's basic needs

部首 人 — other characters

• 人rén (second tone, rising)person, human being; people
• 他tā (first tone, high and level)he, him; his; (in the plural 他们) they, including groups of mixed or unstated gender
• 们/們men (neutral tone)the plural suffix for pronouns and for nouns denoting people: 我们, 你们, 他们, 朋友们
• 你nǐ (third tone, dipping)you (one person)
• 会/會huì (fourth tone, falling) kuài (fourth tone, falling)to know how to, to be able to (through learning); to be likely to, will; a meeting, a gathering, an association; (kuài) only in 会计, accounting
• 借jiè (fourth tone, falling)to borrow; to lend; to make use of, to take (an opportunity)