HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Thinking

关注 guānzhù “to pay close attention to” in Chinese

Traditional 關注

What 关注 means

  1. to pay close attention to
  2. to follow (on social media)
  3. to pay attention to
  4. to follow sth closely
  5. concern
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • interest
  • attention

How to say 关注

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale关guān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale注zhù4th tone, falling

关注 in a sentence

  1. 你必须多关注细节。

    Nǐ bìxū duō guānzhù xìjié.

    You need to pay more attention to details.

    Sentence #9415058 from Tatoeba

  2. 再次感谢您的关注。

    Zàicì gǎnxiè nín de guānzhù.

    Thank you once again for your attention.

    Sentence #3479485 from Tatoeba

  3. 他不太关注棒球。

    Tā bú tài guānzhù bàngqiú.

    He doesn’t follow baseball much.

    Sentence #334854 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 关注 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 关 (guān) with each of its parts in a different colour
关guānmountain pass
  • 丷eight form of 八 · bā
  • 天sky · tiān

Memory aidSimplified from 關, a bar fastened across a gate 門: to close, to shut.

The character 注 (zhù) with each of its parts in a different colour
注zhùto pour into; to flow into; to inject
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐMeaning part
  • 主to own · zhǔSound part

氵 hints at the meaning (water); 主 (zhǔ) hints at the sound. Compare it with zhù.

How to write 关注

关 6 strokes · 注 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

关注 (guānzhù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 关注 (guānzhù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 关注

Words with 关

没关系méi guānxi · it’s okay关guān · to close关心guānxīn · concerned about/with关系guānxi · relation关于guānyú · about有关yǒuguān · to be related to关机guānjī · to turn off (a device)关键guānjiàn · crucial point关闭guānbì · to close海关hǎiguān · customs (i.e. border crossing inspection)

Words with 注

注意zhùyì · pay attention to注册zhùcè · to register注射zhùshè · to inject注重zhùzhòng · to emphasise注视zhùshì · to gaze at注释zhùshì · annotation

More words: Thinking & Feeling

想到xiǎngdào · to think of感到gǎndào · to feel怕pà · to fear记jì · to remember心里xīnlǐ · in one’s heart懂得dǒngde · to understand喜爱xǐ'ài · to like认得rènde · to recognise

FAQs

关注 (guānzhù) means “to pay close attention to” or “to follow (on social media)”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it guānzhù: guān with a 1st tone, then zhù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 关注 is written 關注. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type guanzhu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 关注 from the suggestions. Typing guanzhu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
关注 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.