駐 means “park, stop, be stationed”

ちゅう · chuu

Also: stop-over, reside in, resident

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

チュウ

JLPT N2 · Taught in secondary school · 15 strokes

The story

A horse (馬) staying put where its master (主) left it: the first kind of parking. 駐車場 is a car park, 駐車禁止 the no-parking sign, and outside Japanese stations rows of bicycles fill the 駐輪場, the bicycle lot.

Used in 駐車 (chuusha, parking), 駐車場 (chuushajou, parking lot), and 駐輪場 (chuurinjou, bicycle parking)

More from Getting It There

• 贈 give
• 荷 load
• 符 token
• 導 guide
• 述 state
• 絡 connect
• 届 deliver

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.