注

See also: 註

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 𮊈, 𥦠, 霔, 乼, 㗟

Related characters

• 註 (Variant traditional form)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 618, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 17316
• Dae Jaweon: page 1013, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): 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／形声, OC *tjos) : semantic 水 (“water”) + phonetic 主 (OC *tjoʔ).

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		注

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 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.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of 注 – see 註 (“to annotate; to comment; to record; to register; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant traditional form of 註).

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

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Japanese

Kanji

注

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. to pour

Readings

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: しゅ (shu)^{←しゆ (syu, historical)}
• Kan’yō-on: ちゅう (chū, Jōyō)^{←ちゆう (tyuu, historical)}
• Kun: そそぐ (sosogu, 注ぐ, Jōyō)

Compounds

• 脚(きゃく)注(ちゅう) (kyakuchū): footnote
• 注(ちゅう)解(かい) (chūkai)
• 注(ちゅう)釈(しゃく) (chūshaku)
• 注(ちゅう)文(もん) (chūmon)
• 注(ちゅう)意(い) (chūi)
• 注(ちゅう)射(しゃ) (chūsha)

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Korean

Hanja

注 (eumhun 부을 주 (bueul ju))

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 注 (chú, chõ, giú, chua)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

References

• Nom Foundation