注

注 U+6CE8, 注 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CE8 ← 泧 [U+6CE7] CJK Unified Ideographs 泩 → [U+6CE9]

See also: 註

Translingual

Han character

注 (radical 85 水+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 水卜土 (EYG), four-corner 3011₄, composition ⿰氵主)

References

• KangXi: page 618, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17316
• Dae Jaweon: page 1013, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1592, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6CE8

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (主) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
	Old Chinese
飳	*tʰoːʔ
妵	*tʰoːʔ
黈	*tʰoːʔ
蘣	*tʰoːʔ
罜	*doːɡ, *tjos
拄	*toʔ
柱	*toʔ, *doʔ
駐	*tos
註	*tos, *tjos
鉒	*tos
軴	*tos
住	*tos, *dos
跓	*doʔ
嵀	*doʔ
主	*tjoʔ
麈	*tjoʔ
宔	*tjoʔ
炷	*tjoʔ, *tjos
注	*tjos
疰	*tjos
蛀	*tjos
霔	*tjos

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *tjos): semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 主 (OC *tjoʔ).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		注

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhù (zhu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zyu³
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chu
• Min Dong (BUC): ció / cé̤ṳ
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): tù / chù

  (Teochew, Peng'im): du³ / zu³

• Wu (Wiktionary): tsr (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zhù
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˋ
    • Wade-Giles: chu⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juh
    • IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zyu³
    • Yale: jyu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzy³
    • Guangdong Romanization: ju³
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕyː³³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chu
    • Hakka Romanization System: zu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zu⁴
    • IPA: /t͡su⁵⁵/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: ció / cé̤ṳ
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡suɔ²¹³/, /t͡søy²¹³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tù / chù
    • Tâi-lô: tù / tsù
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dux, zux
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tu²¹/, /t͡su²¹/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tu⁴¹/, /t͡su⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tu²¹/, /t͡su²¹/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tu¹¹/, /t͡su¹¹/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tu²¹/, /t͡su²¹/

Note:

• tù - vernacular (“stake; classifier”);
• chù - literary.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: du³ / zu³
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tù / tsù
  • IPA ^(key): /tu²¹³/, /t͡su²¹³/

Note:

• du3 - vernacular;
• zu3 - literary.

• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: tsr (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sz̩³⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕɨo^H/▼

Rime
Character	注
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	虞 (24)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之戍切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨoH/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕioH/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕioH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cuə̆H/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕioH/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭuH/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhù

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*tro(ʔ)-s/

  (Zhengzhang): /*tjos/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	注
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhù
Middle Chinese	‹ trjuH ›
Old Chinese	/*tro(ʔ)-s/
English	to conduct water
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	注
Reading #	1/1
No.	17622
Phonetic component	主
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	注
Old Chinese	/*tjos/

Definitions

注

1. to pour into; to fill

   注射  ―  zhùshè  ―  injection

   注入  ―  zhùrù  ―  to pour into

2. to concentrate; to pay attention

   注視 / 注视  ―  zhùshì  ―  to look attentively

   專注 / 专注  ―  zhuānzhù  ―  to concentrate completely

   注意  ―  zhùyì  ―  to pay attention

3. (gambling) stake

   賭注 / 赌注  ―  dǔzhù  ―  stake

4. Classifier for sums of money, business deals.

Compounds

Derived terms from 注

• 下注
• 中注模樣／中注模样
• 令人注目
• 備注／备注
• 傾注／倾注 (qīngzhù)
• 傾耳注目／倾耳注目
• 儀注／仪注
• 全神貫注／全神贯注 (quánshénguànzhù)
• 出注
• 加注
• 古今注
• 合注
• 命中注定
• 單注著／单注著
• 大雨如注 (dàyǔ rú zhù)
• 天緣注定／天缘注定
• 夾注／夹注
• 夾注號／夹注号
• 孤注
• 孤注一擲／孤注一掷 (gūzhùyīzhì)
• 孤辰合注
• 專注／专注 (zhuānzhù)
• 小注
• 引人注目 (yǐnrénzhùmù)
• 心神專注／心神专注
• 懸河注水／悬河注水
• 懸河注火／悬河注火
• 批注
• 投注
• 押注
• 挹彼注此

• 挹彼注茲／挹彼注兹 (yìbǐzhùzī)
• 挹注 (yìzhù)
• 旁注
• 標注／标注
• 水注
• 水經注／水经注
• 注兒／注儿
• 注塑
• 注子
• 注定
• 注射 (zhùshè)
• 注射劑／注射剂
• 注射器 (zhùshèqì)
• 注射筒
• 注意 (zhùyì)
• 注意力 (zhùyìlì)
• 注慕
• 注文 (zhùwén)
• 注明 (zhùmíng)
• 注本
• 注水
• 注疏
• 注目 (zhùmù)
• 注目禮／注目礼 (zhùmùlǐ)
• 注腳／注脚
• 注色
• 注視／注视 (zhùshì)
• 注解
• 注釋／注释 (zhùshì)
• 注重 (zhùzhòng)
• 注銷／注销

• 注音
• 注音符號／注音符号 (zhùyīn fúhào)
• 流注
• 浥注
• 灌注 (guànzhù)
• 灌注器
• 皮下注射
• 眷注
• 秤斤注兩／秤斤注两
• 穩吃三注／稳吃三注
• 箋注／笺注
• 肌肉注射
• 腳注／脚注
• 自注
• 血流如注
• 評注／评注
• 詮注／诠注
• 豐注／丰注
• 貫注／贯注 (guànzhù)
• 賭注／赌注 (dǔzhù)
• 起居注
• 跗注
• 轉注／转注 (zhuǎnzhù)
• 這注／这注
• 酒注子
• 關注／关注 (guānzhù)
• 附注 (fùzhù)
• 集注 (jízhù)
• 靜脈注射／静脉注射
• 預防注射／预防注射

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 注 – see 註. (This character, 注, is the simplified and variant traditional form of 註.)

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

注

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to pour

Readings

• Goon: す (su) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: しゅ (shu) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’yōon: ちゅう (chū)
• Kun: そそぐ (sosogu)

Compounds

• 脚注 (きゃくちゅう) (kyakuchū): footnote
• 注解 (ちゅうかい) (chūkai)
• 注釈 (ちゅうしゃく) (chūshaku)
• 注文 (ちゅうもん) (chūmon)
• 注意 (ちゅうい) (chūi)
• 注射 (ちゅうしゃ) (chūsha)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

• Hán Việt: chú

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