座

See also: 坐

Translingual

Han character

座 (Kangxi radical 53, 广+7, 10 strokes, cangjie input 戈人人土 (IOOG), four-corner 0021₄, composition ⿸广坐)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 346, character 3
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 9319
• Dae Jaweon: page 655, character 19
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 886, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5EA7

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		座
alternative forms		坐 (second-round simplified)

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (坐) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
脞	*sʰal, *sʰoːlʔ
侳	*ʔsal, *ʔsoːls
挫	*ʔsoːls
夎	*ʔsoːls
遳	*sʰloːl
銼	*sʰoːls, *zoːl, *zoːɡ
剉	*sʰoːls
莝	*sʰoːls
趖	*soːl
矬	*zoːl
痤	*zoːl
睉	*zoːl
坐	*zoːlʔ, *zoːls
座	*zoːls
髽	*ʔsroːl

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *zoːls) : semantic 广 (“house on cliff”) + phonetic 坐 (OC *zoːlʔ, *zoːls).

Etymology

From 坐 (OC *zoːlʔ, *zoːls, “to sit; to be situated”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 座

1. seat (Classifier: 個／个)
2. stand; base (Classifier: 個／个)
3. Classifier for buildings, mountains and similar immovable objects.

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

座

(grade 6 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ざ (za, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: さ (sa)
• Kun: すわる (suwaru, 座る, Jōyō); くら (kura, 座); います (imasu, 座す)

Compounds

Compounds

• 座(ざ)位(い) (zai, “seat; posing of sitting; sitting sex position”)
• 座(ざ)視(し) (zashi, “idly watching”)
• 座(ざ)州(しゅう) (zashū, “running aground”)
• 座(ざ)礁(しょう) (zashō, “run aground”)
• 端(たん)座(ざ) (tanza, “sitting upright”)
• 便(べん)座(ざ) (benza, “toilet seat”)
• 連(れん)座(ざ) (renza, “implication in a crime”)

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
座
ざ Grade: 6
on’yomi

Middle Chinese 座 (d͡zuɑ^H)

Suffix

座(ざ) • (-za) 

1. names of constellations
2. names of theaters

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
座
くら Grade: 6
kun’yomi

Affix

座(くら) • (kura) 

1. high place

Derived terms

• 位(くらい) (kurai, “grade, rank”)
• 塒(ねぐら) (negura, “roost”)
• 鳥(と)栖(ぐら) 塒(とぐら), 鳥(と)座(ぐら) (togura, “nest”)

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Korean

Hanja

座 • (jwa) (hangeul 좌)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 座 (toạ, toà, phụng)

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