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朱: vermillion | cinnabar

By June 26, 2015January 16th, 2017Chinese Word, Japanese Word, Language-Learning

 

朱 zhū

noun
: vermillion

硃 [朱] zhū


: cinnabar; red mercury; mercuric sulfide HgS

Kun Reading

朱 | あけ ake

noun
: scarlet; red
: blood

朱 | あか aka

noun
: red; crimson; scarlet
: red-containing color (e.g. brown, pink, orange)
: (Colloquialism) Red (i.e. communist)
: (Abbreviation) red light
: (Abbreviation) red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red; () complete; total; perfect; obvious

朱い | あかい akai

adjective
: red
: Red (i.e. communist)

On Reading

朱 | しゅ shu

noun
: cinnabar; vermillion; red; slightly-orange red
: red pigment (and ink made from same)
: red text (as used to correct documents)

 Usage:

朱䴉[鹮] zhu1huan2: (Chinese bird species) crested ibis (Nipponia nippon)
朱鷺[鹭] zhu1lu4: ibis; Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon); same as 朱鹮
[朱鷺 | とき toki OR しゅろ shuro: Japanese crested ibis (Nipponia nippon); crested ibis]

朱麗葉 [朱丽叶] zhu1 li4 ye4: Juliet

朱砂 OR 硃砂 [朱砂] zhu1 sha1: cinnabar; mercuric sulfide HgS; also written



Japanese expression | yojijukugo 四字熟語 | proverb
朱を注ぐ | しゅをそそぐ shu o sosogu
: to flush bright red (e.g. of someone’s face)

*朱唇皓歯 | しゅしんこうし shushin koushi
: (yoji) red lips and pearly white teeth (said of beautiful women)

朱に交われば赤くなる | しゅにまじわればあかくなる shu ni majiwareba akakunaru
: he who touches pitch shall be defiled therewith; one rotten apple spoils the barrel



Chinese expression | chengyu 成語 | idiom
*皓齒硃唇 [皓齿朱唇] hao4 chi3 zhu1 chun2
: white teeth and vermilion lips; lovely young woman

近朱近墨 jin4 zhu1 jin4 mo4
: one is judged by the company one keeps

近朱者赤,近墨者黑 jin4 zhu1 zhe3 chi4 , jin4 mo4 zhe3 hei1
: proximity to cinnabar makes you red, to pitch makes you black (from Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修); different environments provide different influence. Nurture determines a person’s character.

 Etymology:


指事 Indicative.
Tree 未 (wei4: not yet; 8th terrestrial branch) with
an indicator mark 丿 (pie3: line radical 4) pointing to the stem.
Original form of 株.



簡體 Simplified.



 Look-alike:

tian1

: day; sky
 
[kun: あま ama, あめ ame. on: てん ten]

shi3

: arrow; dart
 
[kun: や ya, やがら yagara, やじり yajiri. on: シ shi]

shi1

: to lose, to miss, to fail
 
[kun: うせる useru, うせろ usero, うしなう ushinau, なくす nakusu. on: しつ shitsu, itsu]

fu1 | fu2

: husband; man
: (classical) this, that, he, she, they
 
[kun: つま tsuma; おっと otto, それ sore. on: フ fu, フウ fuu, ブ bu]

he2

: grain; cereal; radical 115
 
[kun: いね ine, のぎへん nogihen. on: カ ka]

xian1

: first; former; previous
 
[kun: さき saki, さきに sakini, さきんじる sakinjiru, まず mazu. on: せん sen]



 Examples:
満面朱をそそいで怒った。
まんめんしゅをそそいでおこった manmen shu o sosoi de okotta
He went red in the face with rage.

Resources: Chinese Dictionary | Japanese Dictionary