注疏

註疏

zhùshū

noun

Meanings

1 commentary and subcommentary (on classical texts)
2 annotations and explanations

Characters

expound / sub-commentary

Examples

他研究《论语》的历代注疏。

Tā yánjiū 《Lúnyǔ》 de lìdài zhùshū.

He studies historical commentaries on the Analects.

十三经注疏是儒家经典的重要文献。

Shísānjīng Zhùshū shì rújiā jīngdiǎn de zhòngyào wénxiàn.

The Thirteen Classics with Commentaries is a major Confucian source.

Tips

history

Two-layer scholarship: 注 (zhù) explains a classical text's words, then 疏 (shū) explains the 注. The Song-dynasty 十三经注疏 (Shísānjīng Zhùshū, Thirteen Classics with Commentaries) bundles Han-era 注 with Tang-era 疏 — the standard reference for Confucian classics for centuries.

Stroke Order

注 zhù

疏 shū