正坐

Chinese

		just (right); main; upright just (right); main; upright; straight; correct; principle; Chinese 1st month of year	to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, aeroplane, etc.)
simp. and trad. (正坐)		正	坐

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhèngzuò

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄥˋ ㄗㄨㄛˋ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhèngzuò
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄥˋ ㄗㄨㄛˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhèngzuò
    • Wade–Giles: chêng⁴-tso⁴
    • Yale: jèng-dzwò
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jenqtzuoh
    • Palladius: чжэнцзо (čžɛnczo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂɤŋ⁵¹⁻⁵³ t͡su̯ɔ⁵¹/

Verb

正坐

1. (literary) to sit upright; to sit ramrod straight

Synonyms

• 端坐 (duānzuò)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
正	坐
せい Grade: 1	ざ Jinmeiyō
kan’on	goon

For pronunciation and definitions of 正坐 – see the following entry.

【正座せいざ】 [noun] sitting (kneeling) in a particular traditional Japanese way (with legs folded under oneself); seiza [verb] to sit in the seiza way

(This term, 正坐, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)