How to say it in Chinese

Stay in Chinese

to stay · HSK 1

住 zhù

我住在学校附近。 I live near the school.

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How do you say stay in Chinese?

Stay in Chinese is 住 (zhù). You can also say 留 (liú), 停留 (tíng liú), 停 (tíng), 留下 (liú xià).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.