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Word and Radical Components of 握住

The Chinese word 握住 is analysed below into its constituent words and the words into radicals. By seeing the breakdown of the word in this way you can more easily learn and recognise the word.


握住 ⇨ 握 + 住
Component Pinyin Meanings
1. to hold in the hand; to grip; to grasp
2. to control
3. (zh-used, 握齪)
zhù 1. to live; to dwell; to reside
      香港。 - I live in Hong Kong.
2. to stay
      - Let love stay at/fill our home, ref=赵明, 《让爱住我家
3. to stop; to cease
4. (Verb suffix indicating firmness, steadiness or coming to a halt.)
5. (Cantonese) (Verb suffix indicating ongoing action's status.)
      - wearing glasses
     唔好 。 - (For now) don't go.
6. (attention, zh, also "to inhabit/live in"?)

握 ⇨ 扌 + 屋
Component Pinyin Meanings
shǒu 1. hand
2. expert; master
     高手 - master
3. -ist; -er
     歌手 - singer
4. convenient; handy; portable
     手機 - mobile phone
     手冊 - handbook
5. handwritten
6. (Min Nan) luck in gambling
7. (Mainland China Hokkien)
8. (Taiwanese Hokkien) hidden part (general)
9. (finance)
10. usage. In many varieties of Chinese south of the Yangtze River, 手 refers to the arm and hand collectively.
1. house
      - there is not a single window in the entire house
2. room

住 ⇨ 亻 + 主
Component Pinyin Meanings
rén 1. Side form of the person (人) radical.
2. usage. Only used as a component in a character. Referred to as 單人旁.
zhǔ 1. owner; master
2. host
3. (archaic, honorific) you (honorific second-person pronoun addressing a "senior official" (zh-m, *大夫) or his spouse)
4. (Christianity, Islam) Lord
5. emperor
6. (colloquial, pejorative) person of a specified type
7. agent; agency
     主動 - active
     主體 - subject (one who possesses agency)
8. party; entity
     事主 - party (in a dispute, especially the one bringing forth the dispute)
9. main; primary; principal; major
     主要 - main
     主演 - leading actor
     主修 - major curriculum
10. to be in charge; to lead; to command
     主事 - to be in charge
11. to indicate; to signify
12. (grammar) (zh-short, 主語)
13. (historical) (zh-short, 公主)
zhù 14. Alternative form of 注 (to pour into)

屋 ⇨ 尸 + 至
Component Pinyin Meanings
shī 1. corpse
2. (historical) a living person who represents the dead person during a rite
3. dead body
4. Simplified form of 屍
zhì 1. to reach; to arrive
2. extreme; most
3. (literary, or in compounds) extreme point; limit
4. from … to …
5.    from … to … (a time)
6.   三 至 五月 - from March to May
7.    from … to … (a place)
8. (Cantonese) only then
dié 9. (zh-only, 單至)

主 ⇨ 丶 + 王
Component Pinyin Meanings
zhǔ 1. dot
2. (An ancient punctuation mark.)
3. Alternative form of 主 (-)
wáng 1. king; monarch
     國王 - king (of a nation)
      - King Cheng of Zhou
      男孩 擁立 wéi 。 - The boy was proclaimed king.
2. duke; prince
     王侯 - nobles; aristocrats, lit=princes and marquises
     親王 - prince
      - - Li Shimin, the Prince of Qin
3. best or strongest of its kind
     拳王 - boxing champion
     百獸 獅子 還是 老虎? - Is the lion or the tiger the king of beasts?
4. chief; head; ringleader
     擒賊先擒王 - to defeat the enemy, first catch their chief
5. (chess) king
6. (graph theory) king (a vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2)
     任意 競賽圖 。 - In every tournament there exists a king.
     Wang; Wong; Ong; Heng
      - Wang Bo (Tang dynasty poet)
      - - Wang Yanzheng (Emperor of Min)