朱

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

See also: 硃

Translingual

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 珠 株 殊

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		朱

Glyph origin

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

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhū, shū (zhu¹, shu¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨ, ㄕㄨ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu¹
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chu

  (Teochew, Peng'im): zu¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhū
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨ
    • Wade-Giles: chu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ju
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵⁵/
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: shū
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ
    • Wade-Giles: shu¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shu
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyu¹
    • Yale: jyū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕyː⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu
    • Tâi-lô: tsu
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zw
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡su³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡su⁴⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: zu¹
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsu
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡su³³/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕɨo/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*to/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjo/

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

朱

1. cinnabar, vermilion
2. A surname​.

Compounds

• 朱砂 (zhūshā, “cinnabar”)

References

• (Min Nan) “Entry #2451”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 朱 – see 硃. (This character, 朱, is the simplified form of 硃.)

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

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Japanese

Kanji

朱

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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

Readings

• Goon: す (su) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: しゅ (shu)
• Kun: あか (aka), あけ (ake)

Noun

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. vermilion

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

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