HSK 4 · Verbs

租 zū “to hire” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 租 means

  1. to hire
  2. to rent
  3. to charter
  4. to rent out
  5. to lease out

How to say 租

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale租zū1st tone, high and level

租 in a sentence

  1. 我们租了公寓。

    Wǒmen zū le gōngyù.

    We rented the flat.

    Sentence #10230453 from Tatoeba

  2. 我想租一辆车。

    Wǒ xiǎng zū yí liàng chē.

    I’d like to rent a car.

    Sentence #861007 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 你租房子了吗？

    Nǐ zū fángzi le ma?

    Did you rent a flat?

    Sentence #334117 from Tatoeba

How 租 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 租 (zū) with each of its parts in a different colour
租zūto hire
  • 禾grain · hé
  • 且moreover · qiě

How to write 租

租 10 strokes

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

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

Words related to 租

Words with 租

出租车chūzūchē · taxi租赁zūlìn · to rent

More words: Common Verbs

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FAQs

租 (zū) means “to hire” or “to rent”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it zū: zū with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 租 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 租 from the suggestions. Typing zu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
租 is an HSK 4 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.