住
Meaning
- to live; to reside; to stay
- to stop; to cease
- (result complement indicating firmness or a stable achieved state)
Example sentence
你住哪里？
Where do you live?
The character 住
住 is 亻, a person, beside 主. To live somewhere — 我住在北京 — and, fixed after a verb, it says the result holds: 记住 to fix in memory, 站住 to stop dead, 抓住 to keep hold of.