漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
注: pour, irrigate
Also: shed (tears), flow into, concentrate on, notes, comment, annotate
JLPT N48 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met
氵 carries the meaning · 主 gives the sound
8 strokes
Two readings, and the words that use each
チュウchuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 注射ちゅうしゃinjection
- 注解ちゅうかいexplanatory, notes, annotation
- 脚注きゃくちゅうfootnote
- 注目するちゅうもくするpay attention, watch [v.i.]
- 注文するちゅうもんするorder, request [v.t.]
- 注視するちゅうしするgaze steadily at
- 注意するちゅういするbe careful, beware [v.i.]
- 発注するはっちゅうするplace an order
そそぐsosogu · kun'yomi · on its own
- 注ぐそそぐpour
Also read さす, つぐ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)水 water (meaning) + 主 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 注 (rev. 92161846), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
主
Also built on lord (主)
注 takes the 主 family's reading, チュウ (chuu).
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side注 pour · 氵
vs住 dwell · 亻In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhù
Same form: 注 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 注 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 注 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhù most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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