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
Ideographic description
⿰亻主The sequence reads left to right and describes how the parts are arranged.
- 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.
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)