HSK 1 · Common Verbs

住 zhù “to live” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 住 means

  1. to live
  2. to reside
  3. to stay
  4. to stop
  5. to cease
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • (result complement indicating firmness or a stable achieved state)

How to say 住

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale住zhù4th tone, falling

住 in a sentence

  1. 她现在住在哪儿？

    Tā xiànzài zhù zài nǎr?

    Where does she live now?

    Sentence #829559 from Tatoeba

  2. 谁住在这儿？

    Shéi zhù zài zhèr?

    Who lives here?

    Sentence #12422342 from Tatoeba

  3. 你在上海要住多少时间？

    Nǐ zài Shànghǎi yào zhù duōshǎo shíjiān?

    How long are you going to stay in Shanghai?

    Sentence #421172 from Tatoeba

How 住 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 住 (zhù) with each of its parts in a different colour
住zhùto live; to reside; to stay
  • 亻person form of 人 · rén
  • 主to own · zhǔ

Memory aidA person 亻 staying where the host 主 lives: to live, to stay. 主 (zhǔ) also gives the sound.

How to write 住

住 7 strokes

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

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

Words related to 住

Words with 住

住院zhùyuàn · to be in hospital忍不住rěnbuzhù · cannot help住宅zhùzhái · residence居住jūzhù · to live (in a place)

More words: Common Verbs

想xiǎng · to want做zuò · to do工作gōngzuò · to work回huí · to return打电话dǎ diànhuà · to make a phone call睡觉shuìjiào · to sleep买mǎi · to buy开kāi · to open

FAQs

住 (zhù) means “to live” or “to reside”. It is an HSK 1 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it zhù: zhù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 住 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zhu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 住 from the suggestions. Typing zhu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
住 is an HSK 1 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.