tí
essential oil of butter
Phonosemantic compound. 酉 represents the meaning and 是 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 醍
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
flawless Buddhist teaching | ||
essential oil of butter | ||
nirvana |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5966th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+918D |
Shuowen | 《說文新附》:“醍,清酒也。从酉,是聲。” |
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