朱

Translingual

Han character

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

1. cinnabar, vermilion
2. used as a surname

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

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simp. and trad.		朱

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhū, shú (zhu¹, shu²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨ, ㄕㄨˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu¹
• Min Nan (POJ): chu

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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: shú
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨˊ
    • Wade-Giles: shu²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shwu
    • IPA ^(key): /ʂu³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyu¹
    • Yale: jyū
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy¹
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕyː⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chu
    • Tâi-lô: tsu
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡su⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡su³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (朱, reconstructed)
Character (朱), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 章 (23) Final: 虞 Division: III			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 章俱切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/t͡ɕɨo/	/t͡ɕi̯u/	/t͡ɕio/	/t͡ɕio/	/cuə̆/	/t͡ɕĭu/	/t͡ɕio/

Old Chinese pronunciation (朱, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
朱								zhū								‹ tsyu ›								/*to/								dwarf
朱								zhū								‹ tsyu ›								/*to/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
朱					17569					朱					侯					0					朱					/*tjo/					甲金文木中加劃表樹榦（本戴侗說），株初文

Compounds

• 朱砂 (cinnabar)

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

朱

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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

Readings

• On: しゅ (shu)
• Kun: あか (aka), あけ (ake)

Noun

朱 (hiragana あけ, romaji ake)

1. crimson

朱 (hiragana あか, romaji aka)

1. alternative form of 赤

朱 (hiragana しゅ, romaji 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 (chu, cho, chẩu, chõ, chau, châu, choa)

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