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坐 — to sit; to take a seat; to take

to sit; to take a seat; to take; to bear fruit

Pinyin
zuò · Zuò
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — zuò, Zuò — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 坐: 7 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

坐 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 坐

Words with 坐 in the HSK syllabus: 3

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 坐zuòto sit; to take a seat; to take; to bear fruitHSK 1
  2. 乘坐chéngzuòto take; to rideHSK 4
  3. 坐落zuòluòto be situated; to be locatedHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.