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注意

zhù yì 4–4

to take note of; to pay attention to

HSK level
HSK 3
HSK 2.0 level 3 · HSK 3.0 level 3
Characters
2
注 · 意
Syllables
2
zhù yì
Frequency
Common
corpus count 547

Part of speech: v,vn

Character by character

  • 注zhù8 strokesHSK 3 traditional 註concentrate, focus, direct
  • 意yì13 strokesHSK 2thought, idea, opinion; think

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

  • 我没注意。

    Wǒ méi zhù yì

    I didn't pay attention.

  • 他没有注意她。

    Tā méi yǒu zhù yì tā

    He paid no attention to her.

  • 她没有注意他。

    Tā méi yǒu zhù yì tā

    She paid no attention to him.

  • 你没注意到吗？

    Nǐ méi zhù yì dào ma

    Didn't you notice that?

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 注意. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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