着
著HSK 1freq #38
Meanings
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- 1.to touch
- 2.to come in contact with
- 3.to feel
- 4.to be affected by
- 5.to catch fire
- 6.to burn
- 7.(coll.) to fall asleep
- 8.(after a verb) hitting the mark
- 9.succeeding in
- 1.variant of 着[zhe]
- 1.variant of 着[zhuó]
- 1.variant of 着[zháo]
- 1.a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuó])
- 2.trick; tactic
- 3.(dialect) okay; all right
- 4.(dialect) to put in; to add
- 1.aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
- 1.to wear (clothes)
- 2.to contact
- 3.to use
- 4.to apply
- 1.variant of 着[zhāo]
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Etymology
Corrupted variant of 著 (艹 → 䒑; 日 → 目 (mù)). Recorded as an unorthodox form (俗字) in the Tang dynasty orthographic dictionary Ganlu Zishu 《干祿字書》. Later dictionaries such as the Ming dynasty 《字學三正》 and Qing dynasty Zhengzitong 《正字通》 recorded the glyph as ⿱𦍌⿰丿目.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
听着。
Listen.
灯亮着。
The light was on.
灯亮着。
The light is on.
留着吧。
Keep it.
留着吧。
Keep them.
在这等着。
Wait here.
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