注ぐ
そそぐ · sosogu · JLPT N3 · verb-godan
to pour (into)
🫗 注 = 氵 water + 主 host: the host is the one who pours
The left side 氵 is the water radical, and 主 means host or master. Water plus host gives the job of pouring drinks. For the sound, そそぐ is like saying so-so-go, a stream that keeps going into the cup.
注 — water 氵 + master 主 (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 氵 (water) gives the meaning of pouring or flowing, while 主 supplies the sound. The original sense was 'to pour water in,' which extended to 'concentrate, focus' (as in pouring attention) and 'to annotate' (pouring explanation into a text).
つぐ · tsugu · JLPT N3 · verb-godan
to pour (into)
🫖☕ 注 = 氵 water + 主 host: the host is the one who pours
The left side 氵 is the water radical, and 主 means host or master. In Japanese manners you pour drinks for others, never for yourself. Tsugu also means to continue (継ぐ), and pouring keeps the cup going.
注 — water 氵 + master 主 (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 氵 (water) gives the meaning of pouring or flowing, while 主 supplies the sound. The original sense was 'to pour water in,' which extended to 'concentrate, focus' (as in pouring attention) and 'to annotate' (pouring explanation into a text).