租

zū

HSK 2freq #2332

Meanings

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zū

1.to hire
2.to rent
3.to charter
4.to rent out
5.to lease out
6.rent
7.land tax

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Wiktionary

1.to rent; to hire; to charter
2.to rent out; to lease
3.rent payment
4.land tax
5.a surname, Zu

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *ʔsaː): semantic 禾 + phonetic 且 (OC *sʰjaːʔ, *ʔsa). Land rent was paid in grain.

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Stroke order

Components

租禾且

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

Example sentences

我想要租車。
I want to rent a car.
我想租一輛車。
I'd like to rent a car.
我们租了公寓。
We rented an apartment.
我们租了公寓。
We rented the apartment.
我想租一輛車。
I would like to rent a car.
他們按小時租車。
They rent the car by the hour.

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More examples & usage (AI)

Related words

出租 to rent 租金 rent 房租 rent for a room or house 租赁 to rent; to lease; to hire 租客 tenant 日租 to rent by the day 租让 to lease out 租债 rent and debt 时租 to rent by the hour 租税 taxation 竞租 rent-seeking (economics)周租 to rent by the week