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住宅

zhù zhái

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

住宅 (zhù zhái) means "residence; dwelling; abode". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 住宅 means

1. residence; dwelling; abode

The characters in 住宅

• 住zhùto live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease…
• 宅zháiresidence; (colloquial) to stay in at home; to hang around at home

Example sentences

• 住宅围栏应该多高？
  How high should a home fence be?
• 汤姆的住宅有一个不错的花园。
  Tāngmǔ de zhùzhái yǒu yī gè bù cuò de huāyuán.
  Tom's house has a nice garden.
• 今年，爱丁堡城市为了改变它的水边地并给它增加中的人口供应一种新型的住宅区而开始十五年的重建工作。
  Jīnnián, àidīngbǎo chéngshì wèile gǎibiàn tā de shuǐbiān de bìng gěi tā zēngjiā zhōng de rénkǒu gōngyìng yīzhǒng xīnxíng de zhùzháiqū ér kāishǐ shíwǔ nián de chóngjiàn gōngzuò.
  This year, Edinburgh began work on its fifteen-year regeneration project to transform its waterfront and provide a new kind of living area for its growing population.

Words starting with 住宅

• 住宅区zhù zhái qūresidential area; housing development
• 住宅楼zhù zhái lóuresidential building
• 住宅泡沫zhù zhái pào mòhousing bubble

Where 住宅 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhǔ–zhù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhù zhái correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.