注

TranslingualEdit

Stroke order

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

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

simp. and trad.		注

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Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: zhù
  - Zhuyin: ㄓㄨˋ
  - Wade–Giles: chu⁴
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: juh
  - Tongyong Pinyin: jhù
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: zyu³
  - Yale: jyu
  - Cantonese Pinyin: dzy³
  - Guangdong Romanization: ju³
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃyː³³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chu
  - Hakka Romanization System: zu
  - Hagfa Pinyim: zu⁴
  - Sinological IPA: /t͡su⁵⁵/
Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: ció / cé̤ṳ
  - Sinological 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:

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

Note:

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	注
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhù
Middle Chinese	‹ trju^H ›
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.

注

to pour into; to fill
注射 ― zhùshè ― injection

注入 ― zhùrù ― to pour into
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
(gambling) stake
賭注 / 赌注 ― dǔzhù ― stake
Classifier for sums of money, business deals.

Derived terms from 注

For pronunciation and definitions of 注 – see 註 (“to annotate; to comment; to record; to register; etc.”). (This character, 注, 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.