purest cream

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
酉 meaning component

  Meaning component

yǒu

  

wine

胡 sound component

  Sound component

  

beard

Evolution

醐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
醐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

purest cream

Most common words with 醐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

醍醐灌顶

flawless Buddhist teaching

purest cream

醍醐

nirvana

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6002nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+9190

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“醐,醍醐,酪之精者。从酉,胡聲。”


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