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注

注

See also: 註

Translingual

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 氵 + phonetic 主 ‎(OC *tjoʔ).

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

Chinese

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.
 注

Pronunciation

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
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/

Verb

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

Noun

注

  1. (gambling) stake
    賭注 / 赌注  ―  dǔzhù  ―  stake

Classifier

注

  1. measure word for sums of money, business deals

Compounds

Etymology 2

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

References

  • 注 in CEDICT on MDBG

Japanese

Kanji

注

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. to pour

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

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