着

Character	着
Codepoint	U+7740

See also: 著, 差, and 羞

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Variant of 著. In current form 羊 + 目, with distorted 羊. Not related to 差 or 羞.

Han character

着 (radical 123 羊+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 廿手月山 (TQBU), composition ⿱⺶目)

1. make a move, take action

Usage notes

着 and 著 are traditional variants of the same character (variant dictionary), and in simplified Chinese only 着 is used. However, in Japanese shinjitai, 着 and 著 are distinct characters, and in Big5 encoding 著 is encoded but 着 is not – the variants were standardized differently in Mainland simplified and Taiwanese traditional. In Hong Kong, 着 and 著 are distinct characters with different meaning. But it is sometimes influenced by Mainland and Taiwan.

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 808, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 23339
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3129, character 9
• Unihan data for U+7740

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Cantonese

Hanzi

着 (Yale jau1, jau2 jeuk6)

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Japanese

Kanji

着

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. arrive, wear

Readings

• On: ちゃく (chaku), じゃく (jaku)
• Kun: きる (kiru), つく (tsuku)

Compounds

• 着実 (ちゃくじつ, chakujitsu)
• 着実惠 (きみえ, Kimie)
• 着信音 (ちゃくしんおん, chakushin'on)
• 着物 (きもの, kimono)
• 下着 (したぎ, shitagi)
• 水着 (みずぎ, mizugi)
• 上着 (うわぎ, uwagi)
• 柔道着 (じゅうどうぎ, jūdogi)
• 仕事着 (しごとぎ, shigotogi)
• 必着 (ひっちゃく, hitchaku)
• 先着順 (せんちゃくじゅん, senchakujun)
• 膠着語 (こうちゃくご, kōchakugo)

Derived terms

• 着る (きる, kiru)
• 着く (つく, tsuku) (to arrive)

Counter

着 (hiragana ちゃく, romaji -chaku)

1. suits of clothing

Suffix

着 (hiragana ぎ, romaji -gi)

1. clothes, outfit, uniform

着 (hiragana ちゃく, romaji -chaku)

1. arrival at

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Korean

Hanja

着 (hangeul 착 (chak), revised chak, McCune-Reischauer ch'ak, Yale chak)

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Mandarin

simpl.		着
trad.		著

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

着 (Pinyin zhe (zhe5), zháo (zhao2), zhuó (zhuo2), zhāo (zhao1))

Suffix

着 (Pinyin zhe)

1. -ing (a suffix)

Verb

着

1. To touch.
2. To burn.
3. To feel.

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Middle Chinese

Han character

着 (*djiɑk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

着 (khán, trước)

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Wu

Han character

着 (tsaʔ, z̥aʔ)

Verb

Usage notes

By itself, this word means 'to take action', but if used in conjunction with other nouns, the meaning of the verb changes as in those examples below:

• 着棋 (tsaʔ tɕi) - to play Go/chess
• 着冷 - to catch cold
• 着港 - to obtain, to receive
• 着衣裳 (tsaʔ i z̥ã) - to fold clothes