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朱

朱

See also: 硃

Translingual

Han character

朱 (radical 75 木+2, 6 strokes, cangjie input 竹十木 (HJD), four-corner 25900, composition ⿰丿未)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 509, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14424
  • Dae Jaweon: page 893, character 4
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1154, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+6731

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 朱

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (朱) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
咮 *tu, *tus, *tos, *tjo
株 *to
誅 *to
邾 *to
鼄 *to
跦 *to
袾 *to, *tʰjo
鴸 *to, *tjo
蛛 *to
殊 *to, *djo
趎 *do
珠 *tjo
朱 *tjo
侏 *tjo
絑 *tjo
祩 *tjo, *tjos
鮢 *tjo
硃 *tjo
姝 *tʰjo
銖 *djo
茱 *djo
洙 *djo
陎 *djo

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 朱
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 章 (23)
Final (韻) 虞 (24)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 章俱切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡ɕɨo/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡ɕio/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡ɕio/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /cuə̆/
Li
Rong		 /t͡ɕio/
Wang
Li		 /t͡ɕĭu/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡ɕi̯u/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zhū
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 朱 朱
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zhū zhū
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tsyu › ‹ tsyu ›
Old
Chinese		 /*to/ /*to/
English dwarf red

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 朱
Reading # 1/1
No. 17569
Phonetic
component		 朱
Rime
group		 侯
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 朱
Old
Chinese		 /*tjo/
Notes 甲金文木中加劃表樹榦（本戴侗說），株初文

Definitions

朱

  1. cinnabar, vermilion
  2. A surname​.

Compounds

  • 朱砂 (zhūshā, “cinnabar”)

References

Japanese

Kanji

朱

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

  1. vermilion
  2. cinnabar
  3. scarlet
  4. red
  5. bloody

Readings

Noun

朱 ‎(hiragana あけ, romaji ake)

  1. crimson

朱 ‎(hiragana あか, romaji aka)

  1. Alternative form of 赤

朱 ‎(hiragana しゅ, romaji shu)

  1. vermilion

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

朱 (cho, chẩu, chõ, chu, chau, châu, choa)

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