Chinese word dictionary

坐骑

zuò qí · saddle horse; mount

Practice word

Word information

Simplified坐骑

Traditional坐騎

Pinyinzuò qí

Part of speechDictionary

HSK 3.0Not listed

HSK 2.0Not listed

Character breakdown

Study each Hanzi separately, then return to the complete word so pronunciation, meaning, and movement stay connected.

坐zuò

seat; to sit; to ride, to travel by

骑qí

to ride, to mount; cavalry

How to learn 坐骑

Listen once without reading, repeat the pinyin with its tones, then write every character in sequence. Finally, recall the complete meaning instead of memorizing each character as an isolated translation.

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Related vocabulary

Words with the same characters

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坐zuò

surname Zuo; to sit; to take a seat; to take (a bus, airplane etc); to bear fruit; variant of 座[zuo4]

骑qí

to sit astride; to ride (a horse, bike etc); classifier for saddle horses

乘坐chéngzuò

to take (a ship, plane etc); to ride (in a train or other vehicle)

坐落zuòluò

to be situated; to be located (of a building)