住 (zhù) means Live (reside - dwell - stay - stop). Below are 24 of the 100 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
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From the graded readers
我 住 在十一楼，只好走楼梯。
wǒ zhù zài shíyī lóu, zhǐhǎo zǒu lóutī.
I live on the eleventh floor, so I had to take the stairs.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
我把箱子打开一看，愣 住 了。
wǒ bǎ xiāngzi dǎkāi yī kàn / kān, lèng zhùle.
I opened the box and stopped short.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Shopping Online
我谢了他，正要走，他叫 住 了我。
wǒ xiè le / liǎo / liào tā, zhèng yāo zǒu, tā jiào zhùle wǒ.
I thanked him and was about to go when he called me back.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Getting Lost
她 住 在九楼，我们一边走一边聊天。
tā zhù zài jiǔ lóu, wǒmen yībiān zǒu yībiān liáo tiān.
She lives on the ninth floor, and we chatted as we climbed.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
第一天，我们 住 在山下的一个小旅馆。
dìyī tiān, wǒmen zhù zài shān xià de / dì yīgè xiǎo lǚguǎn.
On the first day we stayed in a small hotel at the foot of the mountain.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · A Trip With Friends
我问她：“阿姨，您 住 几楼？我帮您拿吧。”
wǒ wèn tā:" ā / ē yí, nín zhù jǐ / jī lóu? wǒ bāng nín ná bā."
I asked her, "Which floor are you on? Let me carry those."
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Helping a Stranger
我在那个房子里 住 了八年，东西比我想的多得多。
wǒ zài nèigè fángzi lǐ zhùle bānián, dōngxī bǐ wǒ xiǎng de / dì duō deduō.
I'd lived in that flat for eight years, and had far more stuff than I'd thought.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · Moving House
我们认识四年了，从大学一年级开始就 住 在一个宿舍。
wǒmen rènshi sìnián le / liǎo / liào, cóng dàxué yī niánjí kāishǐ jiù zhù zài yīgè sùshè.
We'd known each other four years, sharing a dorm since our first year at university.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Saying Goodbye
可是最后一个问题让我愣 住 了：“你觉得自己最大的缺点是什么？”
kěshì zuìhòu yīgè wèntí ràng wǒ lèng zhùle:" nǐ juéde zìjǐ zuìdà de / dì quēdiǎn shì shénme?"
But the last question stopped me: "What do you think your biggest weakness is?"
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
From the travel phrasebook
我 住 在北京饭店。
Wǒ zhù zài Běijīng Fàndiàn.
I'm staying at the Beijing Hotel.
Travel phrasebook · Airport and immigration
住 appears in 100 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 住
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 住
How is 住 used in a sentence?
This page shows 100 sentences using 住 (zhù, "Live (reside - dwell - stay - stop)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 住 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 住 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 住 an HSK word?
Yes — 住 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 住?
The dictionary page for 住 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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