Chinese Character Wiki

酌

zhuó

serve wine

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

Components
酉 meaning component

酉  Meaning component

yǒu

  

wine

勺 sound component

勺  Sound component

sháo

  

spoon

Evolution

酌 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
酌 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

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

Clerical script

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

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

酌  

zhuó

serve wine; feast; deliberate; to pour wine; to drink wine; to deliberate; to consider

Most common words with 酌
Freq.
Word
Meaning

酌

to pour wine

斟酌

to consider

酌情

to use discretion

字斟句酌

weighing every word

小酌

to have a drink

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*tewk

tsyak

zhuó

pour; deliberate (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

2984th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+914C

Shuowen

“酌，盛酒行觴也。从酉，勺聲。”


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