处

處traditional

HSK 5#505 by frequencyradical 夂

chù["n","q","v"]

place; location; spot; point; office; department; bureau; respect; classifier for locations or items of damage: spot, point

chǔ["n","q","v"]

to be in; to be situated at; to stay; to reside; to live; to dwell; to get along with; to be in a position of; to deal with; to discipline; to punish

Examples

按住痛处。

Rub salt in the wound.

就在转角处。

It's just around the corner.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.