注

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See also: 註
注 U+6CE8, 注
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6CE8
← 泧
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 泩 →
㊟ U+329F, ㊟
CIRCLED IDEOGRAPH ATTENTION
← ㊞
 		Enclosed CJK Letters and Months ㊠ →

Translingual

Stroke order
8 strokes

Han character

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

Stroke order
Japan

Derived characters

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

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

Perhaps cognate with 枓, whose original meaning is "spoon, ladle".

Pronunciation

Note:
  • tù - vernacular (“stake; classifier”);
  • chù - literary.
Note:
  • du3 - vernacular;
  • zu3 - literary.
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
Baxter tsyuH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/t͡ɕɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/t͡ɕioH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/t͡ɕioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/cuə̆H/
Li
Rong 		/t͡ɕioH/
Wang
Li 		/t͡ɕĭuH/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/t͡ɕi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		zhù
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		zyu3
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. * 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

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:

Japanese

See also 注する
Shinjitai 注
Kyūjitai
[1][2][3]
注󠄁
注+&#xE0101;?
(Adobe-Japan1)
注󠄄
注+&#xE0104;?
(Hanyo-Denshi)
(Moji_Joho)
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Kanji

注

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

  1. to pour
  2. (replacing 註) to place an order (as in 注文)

Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
注
ちゅう
Grade: 3
kan'yōon
Alternative spelling
註

From Middle Chinese 註 (MC tsyuH|trjuH). 注 is a daiyōji replacing 註.

Pronunciation

Noun

注(ちゅう) • (chū) ←ちゆう (tyuu)?

  1. annotation, note

References

  1. ^ 白川静 (Shirakawa Shizuka) (2014) “注”, in 字通 (Jitsū)‎ (in Japanese), popular edition, Tōkyō: Heibonsha, →ISBN
  2. ^ Haga, Gōtarō (1914) 漢和大辞書 [The Great Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Fourth edition, Tōkyō: Kōbunsha, →DOI, page 1264 (paper), page 683 (digital)
  3. ^ Shōundō Henshūjo, editor (1927), 新漢和辞典 [The New Kanji-Japanese Dictionary] (in Japanese), Ōsaka: Shōundō, →DOI, page 748 (paper), page 387 (digital)
  4. ^ Yamada, Tadao et al., editors (2011), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Seventh edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

注 (eumhun 부을 주 (bueul ju))

  1. hanja form? of 주 (“pour”)

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

注: Hán Nôm readings: chú, chõ, giú, chua

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References

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