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住

住

住 U+4F4F, 住
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F4F
← 低
[U+4F4E] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 佐 →
[U+4F50]
See also: 隹

Translingual

Han character

住 (radical 9 人+5, 7 strokes, cangjie input 人卜土 (OYG), four-corner 20214, composition ⿰亻主)

References

  • KangXi: page 98, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 505
  • Dae Jaweon: page 207, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 137, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+4F4F

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 住

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 *tos, *dos) : semantic 亻 + phonetic 主 ‎(OC *tjoʔ).

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 住
Mandarin Beijing /ʈ͡ʂu⁵¹/
Harbin /ʈ͡ʂu⁵³/
Tianjin /ʈ͡ʂu⁵³/
/t͡su⁵³/
Jinan /ʈ͡ʂu²¹/
Qingdao /tʃu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /ʈ͡ʂu³¹²/
Xi'an /p͡fu⁴⁴/
Xining /ʈ͡ʂv̩²¹³/
Yinchuan /ʈ͡ʂu¹³/
Lanzhou /p͡fu¹³/
Ürümqi /ʈ͡ʂu²¹³/
Wuhan /t͡ɕy³⁵/
Chengdu /t͡su¹³/
Guiyang /t͡su²¹³/
Kunming /ʈ͡ʂu²¹²/
Nanjing /ʈ͡ʂu⁴⁴/
Hefei /ʈ͡ʂu⁵³/
Jin Taiyuan /t͡su⁴⁵/
Pingyao /t͡sz̩ʷ³⁵/
Hohhot /t͡su⁵⁵/
Wu Shanghai /zz̩²³/
Suzhou /zz̩ʷ³¹/
Hangzhou /d͡zz̩ʷ¹³/
Wenzhou /d͡zz̩²²/
Hui Shexian /t͡ɕʰy²²/
Tunxi /t͡ɕʰy¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /t͡ɕy⁵⁵/
/t͡ɕy¹¹/
Xiangtan /d͡ʑy²¹/
Gan Nanchang /t͡ɕʰy²¹/
Hakka Meixian /t͡sʰu⁵³/
Taoyuan /tʃʰu⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /t͡sy²²/
Nanning /t͡sy²²/
Hong Kong /t͡sy²²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /t͡su²²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /tiɛu²⁴²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /tiu⁴⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /t͡su³⁵/
/tiu³¹/
Haikou (Min Nan) /tu³⁵/
/ʔdiu²³/
Rime
Character 住 住
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 澄 (11) 知 (9)
Final (韻) 虞 (24) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 持遇切 中句切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɖɨoH/ /ʈɨoH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɖioH/ /ʈioH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ȡioH/ /ȶioH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɖuə̆H/ /ʈuə̆H/
Li
Rong		 /ȡioH/ /ȶioH/
Wang
Li		 /ȡĭuH/ /ȶĭuH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ȡʱi̯uH/ /ȶi̯uH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhù zhù
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 住
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ drjuH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*dro(ʔ)-s/
English stop (v.)

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 住 住
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 17613 17617
Phonetic
component		 主 主
Rime
group		 侯 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 註 住
Old
Chinese		 /*tos/ /*dos/

Definitions

住

  1. to live, to dwell, to reside
  2. to stay
  3. to stop, to cease
  4. Verb suffix indicating firmness, steadiness or coming to a halt.

Compounds

References

  • 住 in CEDICT on MDBG

Japanese

Noun

Kanji in this term
住
じゅう
Grade: 3
on'yomi

住 ‎(hiragana じゅう, romaji jū)

  1. dwelling; living

Kanji

住

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. dwelling, reside

Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

住 • ‎(ju) (hangeul 주, McCune-Reischauer chu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

住 (trú, trọ, giọ)

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