坐

See also 座

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 从 (“two people”) + 土 (“ground”) = two people sitting on the ground.

Han character

坐 (radical 32 土+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人人土 (OOG), four-corner 8810₄, composition ⿻土⿰人人)

1. sit
2. seat
3. ride, travel by
4. [archaic] to offend, to violate (a decree or law)

References

• KangXi: page 225, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 4931
• Dae Jaweon: page 460, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 423, character 12
• Unihan data for U+5750

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Cantonese

Hanzi

坐 (jyutping co5, zo6, Yale cho5, jo6)

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Japanese

Kanji

坐

Readings

• On: ざ (za)
• Kun: すわる (suwaru), そぞろに (sozoroni), おわす (owasu)

Compounds

• 坐視
• 坐礁
• 坐洲
• 端坐
• 連坐

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Korean

Hanja

坐 (hangeul 좌, revised jwa, McCune-Reischauer chwa)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

坐 (pinyin wù (wu4), zuò (zuo4), Wade-Giles wu⁴, tso⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

坐 (tọa, ngồi, toà, toạ)