yùn

liquor

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
酉 meaning component

  Meaning component

yǒu

  

wine

云 sound component

  Sound component

yún

  

clouds

Evolution

酝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
酝 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
酝 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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yùn

liquor, spirits, wine; ferment; to brew

Most common words with 酝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

酝酿

(of alcohol) to ferment

to brew

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3362nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

Unicode

U+915D


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