小坐

Chinese

		small; tiny; few small; tiny; few; young	to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, aeroplane, etc.)
simp. and trad. (小坐)		小	坐

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xiǎozuò

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄗㄨㄛˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xiǎozuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄧㄠˇ ㄗㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: siǎozuò
    • Wade–Giles: hsiao³-tso⁴
    • Yale: syǎu-dzwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: sheautzuoh
    • Palladius: сяоцзо (sjaoczo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹/

Verb

小坐

1. to sit for a while

   中午去上自習，凳子還沒有坐熱就開始關門了（昨天都沒有關），害我沒有地方去，只有來網吧小坐一下。 [MSC, trad.]
   中午去上自习，凳子还没有坐热就开始关门了（昨天都没有关），害我没有地方去，只有来网吧小坐一下。 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhōngwǔ qù shàng zìxí, dèngzǐ hái méiyǒu zuò rè jiù kāishǐ guānmén le (zuótiān dōu méiyǒu guān), hài wǒ méiyǒu dìfāng qù, zhǐ yǒu lái wǎngba xiǎozuò yīxià. [Pinyin]

   At lunchtime, I went to study my lessons, but the bench had not even gotten cold before they started to close (yesterday they did not close at all). I had no place to go. The only thing to do was to come to an internet cafe and sit for a while.