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祝

zhù

Old HSK 3 HSK 3.0 character level 4 Character

祝 (zhù) means "to wish; to offer good wishes". It is an HSK 3.0 level 4 word, and was HSK 3 in the old six-level list.

What 祝 means

1. to pray for
2. to wish (sb bon voyage, happy birthday etc)
3. person who invokes the spirits during sacrificial ceremonies

Other readings

祝 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Zhùsurname Zhu

Example sentences

• 祝贺你
  Zhùhè nǐ
  Congratulations!
• 祝贺！
  Congratulations!
• 祝顺风。
  Zhù shùnfēng.
  Have a nice trip.
• 祝贺你。
  Congratulations!
• 祝你好运。
  I wish you good luck.
• 祝您好运。
  I wish you good luck.

Words starting with 祝

• 祝贺zhù hèto congratulate; congratulations
• 祝福zhù fúblessings; to wish sb well
• 祝愿zhù yuànto wish
• 祝寿zhù shòuto offer birthday congratulations (to an elderly person)
• 祝好zhù hǎowish you all the best! (when signing off on a correspondence)
• 祝融Zhù róngZhurong, god of fire in Chinese mythology (sometimes used allusively, as in 毁于祝融
• 祝谢zhù xièto give thanks
• 祝酒zhù jiǔto drink a toast
• 祝发zhù fàto cut one's hair (as part of a minority ritual or in order to become a monk)
• 祝允明Zhù Yǔn míngZhu Yunming (1460-1526), Ming dynasty calligrapher
• 祝融号Zhù róng Hàothe "Zhurong" Chinese Mars rover, landed on the planet in 2021
• 祝酒词zhù jiǔ císhort speech given in proposing a toast
• 祝祷zhù dǎoto pray
• 祝酒辞zhù jiǔ císhort speech given in proposing a toast
• 祝贺词zhù hè cícongratulatory speech
• 祝枝山Zhù Zhī shānZhu Zhishan (1460-1526), Ming calligrapher and poet, one of Four great southern talents…
• 祝颂zhù sòngto express good wishes

Words containing 祝

• 庆祝qìng zhùto celebrate
• 梁祝Liáng ZhùThe Butterfly Lovers, a Chinese folktale (abbr. for 梁山伯与祝英台
• 预祝yù zhùto wish sb (success, bon voyage etc)
• 庆祝会qìng zhù huìcelebration
• 李祝Lǐ ZhùLizhu, personal name of twenty-first and last Tang emperor Aidi 哀帝
• 敬祝jìng zhùto offer humbly (written at the end of letter to sb of higher status); your humble servant
• 祷祝dǎo zhùto pray (for sth)
• 遥祝yáo zhùto send good wishes from afar
• 恭祝gōng zhùto congratulate respectfully; to wish good luck and success (esp. to a superior)…
• 庙祝miào zhùacolyte in charge of incense in a temple
• 蛊祝gǔ zhùto curse sb; to place a jinx
• 天祝藏族自治县Tiān zhù Zàng zú Zì zhì xiànTianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, in Wuwei City 武威市
• 梁山伯与祝英台Liáng Shān bó yǔ Zhù Yīng táiThe Butterfly Lovers, Chinese folktale of the tragic love between Liang Shanbo and Zhu…
• 天祝Tiān zhùsee 天祝藏族自治县
• 天祝县Tiān zhù Xiànsee 天祝藏族自治县

Characters that look like 祝

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 视shì(literary, or bound form) to look at
• 捉zhuōto clutch; to grab; to capture
• 桃táopeach
• 挽wǎnto pull; to draw (a cart or a bow); to roll up
• 枕zhěn(bound form) pillow; to rest one's head on (Taiwan pr. zhèn)
• 铌níniobium (chemistry)

Sounds the same

Read zhù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 住to live; to reside; to stay; to stop; to cease…
• 助to help; to assist
• 注(bound form) to pour into; to flow into; to inject…
• 著to make known; to show; to prove
• 筑five-string lute; Taiwan pr. zhú
• 驻to halt; to stay; to be stationed (of troops, diplomats etc)
• 柱pillar
• 铸to cast or found metals
• 贮to store; to save; stockpile
• 蛀termite; to bore (of insects)
• 箸(literary) chopsticks
• 伫to stand for a long time; to wait; to look forward to

Where 祝 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Social Relations & Events (HSK 3), HSK 3 Characters · Set 22 (HSK 3), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 3 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhù correctly.
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