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酒

jiǔ

wine

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 酉 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

酉 sound,meaning component

酉  Sound Meaning component

yǒu

  

wine

Pictograph of a container for wine.

Evolution

酒 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
酒 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
酒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
酒 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
酒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

酒  

jiǔ

wine, spirits, liquor, alcoholic beverage; wine (esp. rice wine); liquor; spirits; alcoholic beverage; CL:杯[bēi],瓶[píng],罐[guàn],桶[tǒng],缸[gāng]

Most common words with 酒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

酒

liquor

酒店

wine shop

酒吧

bar

啤酒

beer (loanword)

喝酒

to drink (alcohol)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tsuʔ

tsjuwX

jiǔ

wine


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 71.3920% of movies

347th most common character in movies

797th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+9152

Shuowen

“酒，就也，所以就人性之善惡。从水、从酉，酉亦聲。一曰造也，吉凶所造也。古者儀狄作酒醪，禹嘗之而美，逐儀狄。杜康作秫酒。”


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