租 (zū) means Rent (taxes). Below are 8 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
我想在学校附近 租 一间房子。
Wǒ xiǎng zài xuéxiào fùjìn zū yì jiān fángzi.
I would like to rent a room near the school.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 租
我明天去交房 租 。
Wǒ míngtiān qù jiāo fángzū.
I am going to pay the rent tomorrow.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 交
出 租 车司机很热情。
Chūzūchē sījī hěn rèqíng.
The taxi driver was very friendly.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 司机
我们坐出 租 车去机场。
Wǒmen zuò chūzūchē qù jīchǎng.
We are taking a taxi to the airport.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 机场
房东下个月要涨房 租 。
Fángdōng xià ge yuè yào zhǎng fángzū.
The landlord is raising the rent next month.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 房东
From the graded readers
我只好坐出 租 车，花了五十块钱。
wǒ zhǐhǎo zuò chūzūchē, huāle wǔshí kuài qián.
I had to take a taxi, which cost fifty yuan.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work
Words that contain 租
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 租
How is 租 used in a sentence?
This page shows 8 sentences using 租 (zū, "Rent (taxes)"), 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 租 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 租 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 租 an HSK word?
Yes — 租 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 租?
The dictionary page for 租 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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