zhù

to be stationed at

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
馬 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

horse

主 sound component

  Sound component

zhǔ

  

master

Evolution

駐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
駐 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
駐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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zhù

to be stationed at, reside at; to stop; to halt; to stay; to be stationed (of troops, diplomats etc)

Most common words with 駐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to halt

驻扎

to station

进驻

to enter and garrison

常驻

resident

驻足

to halt

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 5.6063% of movies

2440th most common character in movies

1288th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

Unicode

U+99D0

Shuowen

“駐,馬立也。从馬,主聲。”


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