IDENTITY
住zhùto live; to stay
HSK 1Top 150
CORE MEANING
to live; to stay
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to live; to stayHSK1
- 2.to stop (as a result)HSK3
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 亻person radical (rén)
- strokes
- 7
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰亻主
- person
- gives the sound zhù
USAGE
Common words
住在zhù zàito live at
住房zhùfánghousing
记住jìzhùto remember
Graded examples
他在北京住了十年。Tā zài Běijīng zhù le shí nián.HSK3
He has lived in Beijing for ten years.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
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LEARNING
Memory aid
A person (亻) staying with the master (主) — dwelling.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #150
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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