HSK 3 · Verbs

站 zhàn “stand” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 站 means

  1. stand
  2. a station
  3. be on one’s feet
  4. to halt
  5. to stop
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • branch of a company or organisation
  • website

How to say 站

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale站zhàn4th tone, falling

站 in a sentence

  1. 请你站在我后面。

    Qǐng nǐ zhàn zài wǒ hòumiàn.

    Please stand behind me.

    Sentence #11837138 from Tatoeba

  2. 我站在你这边。

    Wǒ zhàn zài nǐ zhèbiān.

    I’m on your side.

    Sentence #1394786 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我坐过站了，怎么办？

    Wǒ zuò guò zhàn le, zěnmebàn?

    I’ve missed my stop. What should I do?

    Sentence #420464 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 站 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 站 (zhàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
站zhànstation
  • 立stand · lìMeaning part
  • 占to divine · zhānSound part

立 hints at the meaning (stand); 占 (zhān) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhàn.

How to write 站

站 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

站 (zhàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 站 (zhàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 站

Words with 站

车站chēzhàn · rail station火车站huǒchēzhàn · train station网站wǎngzhàn · website加油站jiāyóuzhàn · petrol station

More words: Common Verbs

忘记wàngjì · forget洗澡xǐzǎo · bathe用yòng · to use遇到yùdào · to meet照顾zhàogu · take care of干gàn · to do安排ānpái · to arrange保护bǎohù · to protect

FAQs

站 (zhàn) means “stand” or “a station”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it zhàn: zhàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 站 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 站 from the suggestions. Typing zhan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
站 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.