zhù
concentrate, pour into
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 主 represents the sound. In simplified Chinese 注 is also used to mean "register; comment", while in traditional Chinese this meaning is written with a separate character 註.
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Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*tro(ʔ)-s | trjuH | zhù | to conduct water |
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 79.8334% of movies
449th most common character in movies
492nd most common character in books
Strokes | 8 |
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Traditional | |
Unicode | U+6CE8 |
Shuowen | “注,灌也。从水,主聲。” |