著
简 着 · 繁 著Meanings · zoek3
- (verb) 1. wear (clothes, shoes, etc.); (verb)
- write or compose (book, etc.); (adjective)
- well-known; 2. famous
Meanings · zoek3
- to wear
- to put on
- to be dressed in
- clothing
Meanings · zoek6
- aspect particle indicating action in progress
Meanings · zyu3
- famous
- prominent
- to write
- to compile
- writing
- literary work
- aboriginal
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Reading difference from Unihan
- 著 has the reading zoek3 here; Unihan’s citation reading is zyu3. Different syllable across these source readings. CC-Canto also lists 著 zoek3 as its own entry.
Computed by zimai: each syllable of the CC-Canto word reading is compared with Unihan 17.0.0 kCantonese for its character. The comparison does not say why a reading differs (a changed tone, 變音, a reading tied to one meaning, or a source variant).
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 著 zhāo CC-CEDICT · Mandarina move in chess (Taiwan pr. zhuó); trick; tactic; (dialect) okay; all right; (dialect) to put in; to add
- 著 zháo CC-CEDICT · Mandarinto touch; to come in contact with; to feel; to be affected by; to catch fire; to burn; (coll.) to fall asleep; (after a verb) hitting the mark; …
- 著 zhe CC-CEDICT · Mandarinaspect particle indicating action in progress or ongoing state
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: zhe5. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 59 senses · 3 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
zoek3 · zoek6 · zyu3
Cantonese word readings for 著. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- (literary or Hokkien) to attach to; to stick to; to adhere to
- (literary or Hokkien) to touch; to contact
- (literary or dialectal) to wear; to put on; to be dressed in; clothing
- (literary or dialectal Mandarin, Jin, Wu) to put; to place
- (literary) to arrange
- (literary) to blossom or bear fruit
- (literary) something to depend on; something to fall back on; desired end; a sense of belonging
- to catch fire; to burn; to combust; to be ignited
- to catch fire; to burn; to combust; to be ignited — (Cantonese, Hokkien) to turn on; to light (a light, a machine, etc.)
- (literary) to love deeply; to cling to and be reluctant to leave
- (obsolete) to make (someone to); to order
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to cost
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to live in a fixed place
- (historical) a kind of ancient drinking vessel
- (obsolete or Min, Wu) must; to ought to; should
- to be affected by; to be troubled with; to suffer
- (Hakka, Min) to get; to receive
- (dialectal Mandarin, Wu) to fall asleep
- to fall into a trap; to be trapped
- Particle denoting that an action was "appropriately done"; "not done in vain".
- Particle denoting the success or continuation of an action.
- (Beijing Mandarin) Particle used after verbs to denote the severity of the event.
- (Cantonese) one by one
- (Cantonese, Hakka, Min) correct; right
- (Eastern Min) at; in (a place)
- (Northern Min, Eastern Min, Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Taiwanese Hokkien, Teochew) it's now ...'s turn
- (Hokkien) to hit; to fit exactly
- (Hokkien, used for emphasis) exactly; precisely; just
- (Hokkien, used to express earliness) as soon as; as early as
- (Hokkien) as early as; already
- (Mainland China Hokkien) used for strong emphasis: even
- (Mainland China Hokkien) there is need to; it is necessary or worthwhile to
- (Taiwanese Hokkien) then
- (dialectal Mandarin, Xiang) all right; OK; that's exactly what I was thinking
- (chiefly dialectal Hakka, Teochew, Wu) To play (chess)
- (dialectal Mandarin, colloquial) to put in; to add
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 招 (“move; step (in chess or Go)”)
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 招 (“Classifier for moves or blows (especially in martial arts).”)
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 招 (“(figurative) trick; device”)
character
- (Jin, Taiwanese-Mandarin) Particle indicating the continuation of an action or a state. Often used with 正在 (zhèngzài) or 正 (zhèng).
- (Jin, Taiwanese-Mandarin) Particle used after some adjectives to denote comparison of levels.
- (Jin, Taiwanese-Mandarin) Particle denoting a command, request or advice.
character
- (literary) notable; remarkable; striking
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) famous; well-known
- (literary) to show; to manifest
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to praise; to speak approvingly of
- (literary) to write; to compose
- (literary) literary work; composition; book
- (literary) to record; to document
- (literary) to establish; to set up; to build up
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) achievements; attainments
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) aboriginal; native inhabitants
- (literary) precedence; order
character
- (literary) the space between the front gate and the screens/shields
- (literary) alternative form of 佇 (zhù, “to remain (at a place); to be held up”)
character
- (literary) alternative form of 貯 /贮 (zhù, “to store”)
- (literary) alternative form of 褚 (“to stuff a lined garment with cotton”)
- (historical) an ancient county in modern Shandong, China
character
- (Jin, Taiwanese-Mandarin) used in 著雍 (“(pre-Classical) alternative name for the fifth heavenly stem”)
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