朱

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See also: 硃
朱 U+6731, 朱
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6731
← 朰
[U+6730] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 朲 →
[U+6732]

Translingual[edit]

Han character[edit]

朱 (radical 75, 木+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹十木 (HJD), four-corner 25900, composition ⿰丿未 or ⿻𠂉木)

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 509, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14424
  • Dae Jaweon: page 893, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1154, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6731

Chinese[edit]

trad. 朱/硃
simp. 朱
硃 - cinnabar

Glyph origin[edit]

Characters in the same phonetic series (朱) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咮 *tu, *tus, *tos, *tjo
株 *to
誅 *to
邾 *to
鼄 *to
跦 *to
袾 *to, *tʰjo
鴸 *to, *tjo
蛛 *to
殊 *to, *djo
趎 *do
珠 *tjo
朱 *tjo
侏 *tjo
絑 *tjo
祩 *tjo, *tjos
鮢 *tjo
硃 *tjo
姝 *tʰjo
銖 *djo
茱 *djo
洙 *djo
陎 *djo

Ideogram (指事): a tree (木) with its center highlighted with an extra dot-like stroke, accentuating the tree's core; contrast 本, 末.

Etymology[edit]

Compare Proto-Vietic *tɔh (“red”) (Schuessler, 2007). 赭 (OC *tjaːʔ, “red paint”) may be related.

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Rime
Character 朱
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 章俱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕɨo/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕio/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cuə̆/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕio/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhū
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 朱 朱
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		zhū zhū
Middle
Chinese 		‹ tsyu › ‹ tsyu ›
Old
Chinese 		/*to/ /*to/
English dwarf red

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 朱
Reading # 1/1
No. 17569
Phonetic
component 		朱
Rime
group 		侯
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		朱
Old
Chinese 		/*tjo/
Notes 甲金文木中加劃表樹榦（本戴侗說），株初文

Definitions[edit]

朱

  1. cinnabar; vermilion
  2. bright red
  3. A surname​.
    朱棣文  ―  Zhū Dìwén  ―  Steven Chu (an American physicist and former Secretary of Energy)

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 朱

Pronunciation 2[edit]

Definitions[edit]

朱

  1. Only used in 朱提 (Shūshí).

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

朱

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. vermilion
  2. cinnabar
  3. scarlet
  4. red
  5. bloody

Readings[edit]

Noun[edit]

朱 (hiragana あけ, rōmaji ake)

  1. crimson

朱 (hiragana あか, rōmaji aka)

  1. Alternative form of 赤

朱 (hiragana しゅ, rōmaji shu)

  1. Abbreviation of 朱色 (“vermilion”).

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

朱 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

朱 (cho, chẩu, chõ, chu, chau, châu, choa)

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