着

著traditional

HSK 2#26 by frequencyradical 目

zhe["u","v","n","q"]

aspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state

zháo["u","v","n","q"]

to feel; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; to touch; to come in contact with; to be affected by; (after a verb) hitting the mark; succeeding in

zhuó

to wear (clothes); to contact; to use; to apply

zhāo

a move in chess (Taiwan pr. [zhuo2]); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to add

Examples

听着。

Listen.

趴着！

Stay down!

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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.