Where 站 comes from
stand
- Meaning part
- 立 (“to stand”)
- Sound part
- 占 (“to occupy”)
How to write 站 (zhàn, “station”)
站 (zhàn), an HSK 2 character, means “station”, “to stand” and “to halt”. It is HSK 2 in the 2025 syllabus, up from level 1 in the 2021 standard. It pairs a meaning part, 立 (“to stand”), with a sound part, 占 (“to occupy”). On its own it is an HSK 2 word; it also forms 车站 (“rail station”), 网站 (“website”) and 加油站 (“gas station”). Japanese reads it tan, “stop”.
- Pinyin
- zhàn
- Strokes
- 10
- HSK
- 2
- Radical
- 立 (“to stand”)
Stroke by stroke
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
As a left-right character it splits into 立 (“to stand”, the radical), strokes 1–5; 占 (“to occupy”), strokes 6–10, written the left part first.
- Vertical ㇑top leftdown and right
- Horizontal ㇐leftrightwards
- Dot ㇔leftdown and right
- Left-falling stroke ㇒centerdownwards → down and left
- Rising stroke ㇀bottom leftrightwards
- Vertical ㇑topdownwards
- Horizontal ㇐rightrightwards
- Vertical ㇑centerdownwards
- Horizontal-turn ㇕centerrightwards → down and left
- Horizontal ㇐bottomrightwards
Japanese and Chinese
Japanese and Chinese draw all 10 strokes in the same order and direction, by our stroke-by-stroke comparison.
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Pinyin and meaning
| Pinyin | Meanings | Traditional | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| zhàn fourth tone | station; to stand; to halt; to stop; branch of a company or organization | — | 车站 网站 加油站 站台 |
- HSK 2025 syllabus
- level 2
- 2021 standard
- level 1
- HSK 2.0
- in a level 1 word
- Words with it
- 100 in CC-CEDICT
Words with 站
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 站 | zhàn | station; to stand HSK 2 |
| 车站 車站 | chēzhàn | rail station; bus stop HSK 2 |
| 网站 網站 | wǎngzhàn | website HSK 3 |
| 加油站 | jiāyóuzhàn | gas station HSK 4 |
| 站台 站臺 | zhàntái | platform (at a railway station); to publicly endorse or campaign for… HSK 5 |
| 空间站 空間站 | kōngjiānzhàn | space station HSK 7-9 |
| 站立 | zhànlì | to stand; standing HSK 7-9 |
| 核电站 核電站 | hédiànzhàn | nuclear power plant HSK 7-9 |
| 出站 | chūzhàn | to come out of a station; to complete one's postdoctoral appointment… |
| 分站 | fēnzhàn | substation |
HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).
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