押注

yāzhù
  1. to bet
  2. to wager

CEDICT

to place a bet; to bet

Wiktionary

持金钱或物品作为赌注。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 押 yā
  1. to mortgage
  2. to pawn
  3. to detain in custody
  4. to escort and protect
  5. (literary) to sign
=2 注 zhù
  1. (bound form) to pour into; to flow into; to inject
  2. (bound form) to focus (one's spirit, gaze etc) on a single point; to concentrate
  3. (bound form) stake (in gambling)
  4. classifier for stakes, sums of money, transactions or beams of light
  5. variant of 注 zhù
=2 注 zhù
  1. to annotate; to provide explanatory notes on a written text
  2. an annotation; an explanatory note
  3. (bound form) to put on record; to register

Related entries

打赌 dǎdǔ
  1. to bet
  2. to make a bet
  3. a wager
我打賭他會生氣。

I bet he will get mad.

Source: Tatoeba

投注 tóuzhù
  1. to throw one's energies (into an activity)
  2. to invest one's emotions (in sth)
  3. to bet
  4. betting
賭博網站讓用戶投注在將滅絕的物種上，因為墨西哥灣漏油。

Gambling site lets users bet on which species will go extinct because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Source: Tatoeba