坐

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to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc); to bear fruit; variant of 座[zuo4]

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

Two people 从 sitting on the ground 土

Components 从土

sit · Heisig RSH #848

assembly line + 土 soil

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
坐下	zuò xia	to sit down
请坐	qǐng zuò	please, have a seat
坐立不安	zuò lì bù ān	lit. agitated sitting or standing (idiom); restless; fidgety
平起平坐	píng qǐ píng zuò	to be on an equal footing
坐视不理	zuò shì bù lǐ	to sit and watch, but remain indifferent (idiom)
坐吃山空	zuò chī shān kōng	lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom); fig. to s…
后坐力	hòu zuò lì	recoil (of a gun); backlash; reactive force
坐骨神经	zuò gǔ shén jīng	sciatic nerve
坐月子	zuò yuè zi	to convalesce for a month following childbirth, following a special diet, and observing va…
坐立难安	zuò lì nán ān	unable to sit or stand still (out of nervousness etc) (idiom)
坐而论道	zuò ér lùn dào	to sit and pontificate; to find answers through theory and not through practice (idiom)
坐地起价	zuò dì qǐ jià	to opportunistically raise the price
坐大	zuò dà	(derog.) to become powerful or influential
坐标空间	zuò biāo kōng jiān	coordinate space
无后坐力炮	wú hòu zuò lì pào	recoilless rifle
坐化	zuò huà	to die in a seated posture (Buddhism)
坐标法	zuò biāo fǎ	(math.) coordinate method
坐力	zuò lì	see 後坐力\|后坐力[hou4 zuo4 li4]
连坐制	lián zuò zhì	guilt by association
坐车	zuò chē	to take the car, bus, train etc

These characters use 坐 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
坐 sound part	zuò	seat; to sit; to ride, to travel by
唑	zuò	in chemistry, -azole
挫	cuò	to check, to obstruct, to push down
锉	cuò	carpenter's file; to file smooth
痤	cuó	a swelling of the lymph nodes
矬	cuó	short; a dwarf
脞	cuǒ	minced meat; trifles