存在

Character by character

• 存cún6 strokesHSK 3exist, live, be; survive; remain
• 在zài6 strokesHSK 1be at, in, on; consist in, rest

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 他不存在。

  Tā bù cún zài

  He doesn't exist.

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• 我已经存在。

  Wǒ yǐ jīng cún zài

  I already exist.

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• 上帝不存在。

  Shàng dì bù cún zài

  God doesn't exist.

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• 我们存在吗？

  Wǒ men cún zài ma

  Do we exist?

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Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 存在. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 在zàiHSK 1

  to exist; to be alive; (of sb or sth) to be (located) at; (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)

• 现在xiàn zàiHSK 1

  now; at present; at the moment; modern; current; nowadays

• 正在zhèng zàiHSK 1

  just at (that time); right in (that place); right in the middle of (doing sth)

• 实在shí zàiHSK 2

  really; actually; indeed; true; real; honest; dependable; (philosophy) reality

• 在于zài yúHSK 4

  to be in; to lie in; to consist in; to depend on; to rest with

• 存cúnHSK 3

  to exist; to deposit; to store; to keep; to survive

• 生存shēng cúnHSK 3

  to exist; to survive

• 在家zài jiāHSK 1

  to be at home; (at a workplace) to be in (as opposed to being away on official business 差); (Buddhism etc) to remain a layman (as opposed to becoming a monk or a nun 家)

• 所在suǒ zàiHSK 5

  place; location; (after a noun) place where it is located

• 在乎zài huHSK 4

  to care about; equivalent of 在于

• 在场zài chǎngHSK 5

  to be present; to be on the scene

• 保存bǎo cúnHSK 3

  to conserve; to preserve; to keep; to save (a file etc) (computing)

• 不在乎bù zài huHSK 4

  not to care

• 在意zài yìHSK 7

  to care about; to mind

• 处在chǔ zàiHSK 5

  to be situated at; to find oneself at

• 在内zài nèiHSK 5

  (included) in it; among them

• 潜在qián zàiHSK 7

  hidden; potential; latent

• 存款cún kuǎnHSK 5

  to deposit money (in a bank etc); bank savings; bank deposit

• 内在nèi zàiHSK 5

  inner; internal; intrinsic; innate

• 自在zì zaiHSK 6

  comfortable; at ease

• 储存chǔ cúnHSK 6

  stockpile; to store; to stockpile; storage

• 在线zài xiànHSK 7

  online

• 存放cún fàngHSK 7

  to deposit; to store; to leave in sb's care

• 内存nèi cúnHSK 7

  internal storage; computer memory; random access memory (RAM)