着 · zhe
make move, take action
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
make move, take action
- Mandarin
- zhe
- Cantonese
- zoek6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 着 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Kun’yomi · hiragana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Source record & scope
Unicode Unihan 17.0.0 · kJapanese ↗ · provisional property
チャク ジャク きる きせる つく つけるKorean 한국어
Hanja readings · Hangul
Source codes are separated below. They are neither sounds nor tones; a character reading alone does not specify a whole word’s pronunciation.
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Reading sources explained
- 착
- KS X 1001 (0) · Educational Hanja (E)
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+7740
- Radical
- 目 · 109
- Strokes
- 11 · Unihan
- Residual
- 7
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
11 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 着
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Sentence context · 2 matches
我的家与他的隔着一条江。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #876544 · Original contributor: eastasiastudent · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #876548 · Original contributor: eastasiastudent · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- zhe
- kCantonese
- zoek6
- kDefinition
- make move, take action
- kTotalStrokes
- 11
- kRSUnicode
- 109.7 123.5 109.6
- kTraditionalVariant
- U+7740 U+8457
- kSimplifiedVariant
- U+7740
- kGradeLevel
- 1
- kTGH
- 2013:2398
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- zhuó,zhāo,zháo,zhe 53129.090
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- zhāo 1458.010 · zháo 1459.020 · zhe 1465.060 · zhuó 1527.030
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- zhāo 467.160 · zháo 467.180 · zhe 470.160 · zhuó 490.070
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- zhe(10643) zháo(545) zhuó(125) zhāo(15)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- zháo粵zoek6 zhāo粵zoek6 zhe粵zoek6
Reference desk
- Kangxi positions
- 0808.051
- Cangjie
- TQBU
- Four-corner
- 8060.4 8060.1