駐

See also: 驻

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 馬 + phonetic 主

駐 have a meaning similar to 住 but in a military context. The semantic 馬 (horse) suggests a military context.

Han character

駐 (radical 187 馬+5, 15 strokes, cangjie input 尸火卜土 (SFYG), four-corner 7031₄, composition ⿰馬主)

1. to be stationed at, reside at
2. to stop

References

• KangXi: page 1436, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44660
• Dae Jaweon: page 1960, character 27
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4549, character 9
• Unihan data for U+99D0

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Cantonese

Hanzi

駐 (simplified 驻, Yale jyu3)

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Japanese

Kanji

駐

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• On: ちゅう (chū), ちゅ (chu)
• Kun: とどまる (todomaru), とどめる (todomeru)

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Korean

Hanja

駐 (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

駐 (simplified 驻, Pinyin zhù (zhu4), Wade-Giles chu⁴)

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Verb

駐 (traditional, Pinyin zhù, simplified 驻)

1. (of troops, diplomats) to be stationed, to be posted
2. to halt, to stop

References

• "駐" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary ( Based on CC-CEDICT ). URL accessed on 2014-02-18.

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Vietnamese

Han character

駐 (trú)

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