jiǔ
wine
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 酉 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 酒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
liquor | ||
wine shop | ||
bar | ||
beer (loanword) | ||
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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