坐蓐
Chinese
| to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, aeroplane, etc.) | mat; rushes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (坐蓐) | 坐 | 蓐 | |
| simp. #(坐蓐) | 坐 | 蓐 | |
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin: zuòrù
- Zhuyin: ㄗㄨㄛˋ ㄖㄨˋ
- Tongyong Pinyin: zuòrù
- Wade–Giles: tso4-ju4
- Yale: dzwò-rù
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzuohruh
- Palladius: цзожу (czožu)
- Sinological IPA (key): /t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹⁻⁵³ ʐu⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese)+
Verb
坐蓐
- (literary) to go through yuezi (the traditional Chinese form of postpartum recovery that lasts for one month after childbirth, sometimes referred to in English as confinement or lying-in)
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 坐月子 (“to go through postpartum confinement”) [map]