Chinese Character Wiki

酖

zhèn, dān

wine with bird poison added

Suspect 冘 wine 酉

Components
酉 meaning component

酉  Meaning component

yǒu

  

wine

冘 meaning component

冘  Meaning component

yín, yóu

  

to move on

Evolution

酖 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
酖 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
酖 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

酖  

zhèn

wine with bird poison added; poisonous; to poison

酖  

dān

addicted to liquor

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[l]r[ə]m-s

drimH

zhèn

to poison


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

7176th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Unicode

U+9156

Shuowen

“酖，樂酒也。从酉，冘聲。”


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