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  *住* | 住* | *住
to live / to dwell / to stay / to reside / to stop / (suffix indicating firmness, steadiness, or coming to a halt)
HSK 1
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  *祝* | 祝* | *祝
to pray for / to wish (sb bon voyage, happy birthday etc) / person who invokes the spirits during sacrificial ceremonies
HSK 3
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  *猪* | 猪* | *猪
hog / pig / swine / CL: , 頭|头
HSK 3
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  *煮* | 煮* | *煮
to cook / to boil
HSK 6
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  *煮* | 煮* | *煮
variant of
HSK 6
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  *驻* | 驻* | *驻
to halt / to stay / to be stationed (of troops, diplomats etc)
HSK 6
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  *注* | 注* | *注
to register / to annotate / note / comment
HSK 7-9
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  *筑* | 筑* | *筑
five-string lute / Taiwan pr. [zhu2]
HSK 7-9
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  *筑* | 筑* | *筑
to build / to construct / to ram / to hit / Taiwan pr. [zhu2]
HSK 7-9
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  *主* | 主* | *主
owner / master / host / individual or party concerned / God / Lord / main / to indicate or signify / trump card (in card games)
HSK 7-9
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  *注* | 注* | *注
to inject / to pour into / to concentrate / to pay attention / stake (gambling) / classifier for sums of money / variant of 註|注
HSK 7-9
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  *拄* | 拄* | *拄
to lean on / to prop on
HSK 7-9
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  *株* | 株* | *株
tree trunk / stump (tree root) / a plant / classifier for trees or plants / strain (biology) / to involve others (in shady business)
HSK 7-9
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  *祝* | 祝* | *祝
surname Zhu
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  *朱* | 朱* | *朱
surname Zhu
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  *朱* | 朱* | *朱
vermilion
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  *朱* | 朱* | *朱
(bound form) cinnabar
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  *筑* | 筑* | *筑
short name for Guiyang 貴陽|贵阳
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  *逐* | 逐* | *逐
(bound form) to pursue / to chase away / individually / one by one
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  *助* | 助* | *助
to help / to assist
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  *术* | 术* | *术
various genera of flowers of Asteracea family (daisies and chrysanthemums), including Atractylis lancea
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  *诛* | 诛* | *诛
to put (a criminal) to death / to punish
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  *属* | 属* | *属
to join together / to fix one's attention on / to concentrate on
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  *⺮* | ⺮* | *⺮
"bamboo" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 118)
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  *珠* | 珠* | *珠
bead / pearl / CL: , 顆|颗
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  *柱* | 柱* | *柱
pillar / CL:
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  *蛛* | 蛛* | *蛛
(bound form) spider
The Butterfly Lovers, Chinese folktale of the tragic love between Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai
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  *烛* | 烛* | *烛
candle / (literary) to illuminate
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  *著* | 著* | *著
to make known / to show / to prove / to write / book / outstanding
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  *诸* | 诸* | *诸
surname Zhu
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  *诸* | 诸* | *诸
all / various
Zhu Ziqing (1898-1948), poet and essayist
Jianwen Emperor, reign name of second Ming Emperor Zhu Yunwen 朱允炆 (1377-1402), reigned 1398-1402
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  *铸* | 铸* | *铸
to cast or found metals
Zhu Di, personal name of third Ming Emperor Yongle 永樂|永乐
Zhengtong Emperor, reign name of sixth Ming Emperor Zhu Qizhen 朱祁鎮|朱祁镇 (1427-1464), reigned 1435-1449, temple name Yingzong 英宗
Zhengde Emperor, reign name of eleventh Ming emperor Zhu Houzhao 朱厚照 (1491-1521), reigned 1505-1521, temple name 明武宗
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  *丶* | 丶* | *丶
"dot" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 3), aka 點|点
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  *嘱* | 嘱* | *嘱
to enjoin / to implore / to urge
Jingtai county in Baiyin 白銀|白银, Gansu / Jingtai Emperor, reign name of seventh Ming Emperor Zhu Qiyu 朱祁鈺|朱祁钰 (1428-1457), reigned 1449-1457, temple name 代宗
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  *贮* | 贮* | *贮
to store / to save / stockpile / Taiwan pr. [zhu3]
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  *瞩* | 瞩* | *瞩
to gaze at / to stare at
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  *渚* | 渚* | *渚
islet / bank
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  *炷* | 炷* | *炷
wick of an oil lamp / to burn (incense etc) / classifier for lit incense sticks
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  *竺* | 竺* | *竺
surname Zhu / abbr. for 天竺, India (esp. in Tang or Buddhist context) / (archaic) Buddhism
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  *陼* | 陼* | *陼
islet / bank
Yongle Emperor, reign name of third Ming emperor Zhu Di 朱棣 (1360-1424), reigned 1403-1424, temple name 明成祖
Hongwu Emperor, also written Hung-wu Ti, reign name of first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋 (1328-1398), reigned 1386-1398, temple name 明太祖
Zhu Guanghu (1949-), PRC soccer coach
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  *茱* | 茱* | *茱
used in 茱萸
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  *铢* | 铢* | *铢
twenty-fourth part of a tael (2 or 3 grams)
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  *翥* | 翥* | *翥
to soar
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  *褚* | 褚* | *褚
padding (in garment) / to store up / pocket / Taiwan pr. [chu3]
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  *蛀* | 蛀* | *蛀
termite / to bore (of insects)
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  *邾* | 邾* | *邾
surname Zhu
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  *邾* | 邾* | *邾
name of a feudal state
Zhu Zhanji, personal name of fifth Ming emperor Xuande 宣德
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  *苎* | 苎* | *苎
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  *洙* | 洙* | *洙
surname Zhu
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  *洙* | 洙* | *洙
name of a river
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  *箸* | 箸* | *箸
(literary) chopsticks
Ming tombs in Nanjing, tomb of founding Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, a World Heritage site
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  *麈* | 麈* | *麈
leader of herd / stag
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  *杼* | 杼* | *杼
shuttle of a loom
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  *伫* | 伫* | *伫
to stand for a long time / to wait / to look forward to / to accumulate
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  *侏* | 侏* | *侏
dwarf
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  *瘃* | 瘃* | *瘃
chilblain
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  *柷* | 柷* | *柷
percussion instrument, a tapering wooden box struck on the inside with a wooden stick
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  *橥* | 橥* | *橥
Zelkova acuminata
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  *潴* | 潴* | *潴
pool / pond
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  *馵* | 馵* | *馵
(horse)
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  *駯* | 駯* | *駯
black muzzle (of a horse)
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  *砫* | 砫* | *砫
ancestral tablet
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  *窋* | 窋* | *窋
in a hole
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  *舳* | 舳* | *舳
poopdeck / stern of boat
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  *跦* | 跦* | *跦
pace back and forth / to walk
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  *蓫* | 蓫* | *蓫
(weed) / Phytolacca acinosa
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  *躅* | 躅* | *躅
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  *羜* | 羜* | *羜
five-month-old lamb
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  *㝉* | 㝉* | *㝉
to store / to stand / space between the door and the entrance screen
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  *蠩* | 蠩* | *蠩
a toad
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  *箸* | 箸* | *箸
variant of
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  *伫* | 伫* | *伫
to stand for a long time (variant of 佇|伫)
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  *簗* | 簗* | *簗
erroneous variant of 築|筑
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  *櫡* | 櫡* | *櫡
variant of
Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (1130-1200), also known as Master Zhu 朱子, Song dynasty Confucian writer and propagandist, founder of neo-Confucianism
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  *爥* | 爥* | *爥
old variant of 燭|烛
Zhu Yuanzhang, personal name of first Ming dynasty emperor Hongwu 洪武
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  *鼄* | 鼄* | *鼄
old variant of
Liu Ji or Liu Bowen 劉伯溫|刘伯温 (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, with a reputation as a military genius
Master Zhu, another name for Zhu Xi 朱熹
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  *鋳* | 鋳* | *鋳
Japanese variant of 鑄|铸
Zhu De (1886-1976), communist leader and founder of the People's Liberation Army
Zhu Jun (-195), politician and general at the end of later Han
Liu Bowen (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, with a reputation as a military genius, also called Liu Ji 劉基|刘基
Zhu Wen (852-912), military governor 節度使|节度使 at the end of Tang, founder of Later Liang of the Five Dynasties (907-923), also known as Emperor Taizu of Later Liang 後梁太祖|后梁太祖
Sun Zhu (1711-1778), poet and compiler of Three Hundred Tang Poems 唐詩三百首|唐诗三百首 / also known by assumed name 蘅塘退士
Ken Zhu (1979-), Taiwanese singer and actor
Wu Han (1909-1969), historian, author of biography of Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋, hounded to his death together with several members of his family during the cultural revolution

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