坐
zuò
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To sit; also to ride in a vehicle as a passenger, such as a bus, train, plane or taxi. 请坐 is 'have a seat', 坐火车 'to go by train' and 坐飞机 'to fly'. If you are the driver, the verb is 开 (开车). It sounds exactly like 做 zuò 'to do, to make'.
Ngồi; cũng có nghĩa là đi bằng xe, tàu, máy bay mà mình không tự lái. 请坐 là “mời ngồi”, 坐火车 là “đi tàu hoả”, 坐飞机 là “đi máy bay”: tiếng Việt dùng “đi” ở chỗ tiếng Trung dùng 坐. Tự lái thì dùng 开 (开车). Đọc giống hệt 做 zuò (làm).
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 坐 = tọa · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “坐” mean?
To sit; also to ride in a vehicle as a passenger, such as a bus, train, plane or taxi. 请坐 is 'have a seat', 坐火车 'to go by train' and 坐飞机 'to fly'. If you are the driver, the verb is 开 (开车). It sounds exactly like 做 zuò 'to do, to make'.
Is “坐” formal or informal?
坐 is generally neutral.