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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坐* | 坐* | *坐
to sit / to take a seat / to take (a bus, airplane etc) / to bear fruit / variant of
HSK 1
please, have a seat
HSK 1
to ride (in a vehicle)
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *坐* | 坐* | *坐
surname Zuo
to sit quietly / to meditate / to stage a sit-in
to sit cross-legged (as in the lotus position)
to sit in a circle / seated around (a narrator)
recoil (of a gun) / backlash
to sit upright
to sit in meditation / to meditate
to sit down
to sit facing each other
to treat as guilty those associated with an offender (family, neighbors etc)
to sit upright and still (idiom)
to sit in the lotus position
to sit on the ground or the floor (idiom)
to be on an equal footing
to sentence the accuser (and free the falsely accused defendant)
to sit kneeling with legs folded underneath the thighs and buttocks resting on the heels
to sit with legs dangling
to sit silently
sit-up (physical exercise)
to travel by / to ride on
sitting with one leg crossed (usu. of Bodhisattva)
to sit together
crossed leg posture (usu. of Buddha)
variant of 讓座|让座
soft seat (= first class in PRC trains)
to sit around / to sit idly
to sit astride / to ride


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