漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
酉: west, bird
Also: sign of the bird, 5-7PM, tenth sign of Chinese zodiac, sake radical (no. 164)
JLPT N17 strokesName kanji (jinmeiyō)Your ink: 白 Not met
西 and 一 are drawn in
7 strokes
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Western Zhou Small seal · Qin Today
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
とりtori · kun'yomi · on its own
- 酉とりthe Rooster (tenth sign of the Chinese…
- 酉年とりどしyear of the Rooster; year of the Cock
- 丁酉ひのととりFire Rooster (34th term of the sexagenary…
Also read ユウ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Pictogram (象形)
A wine vessel with a pointed bottom.
Source: Wiktionary, 酉 (rev. 92730138), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Cheers to the harvest! This radical represents the ancient jars of fermented wine and the bounty of the ripened earth.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side酉 west · 一
vs茜 madder · 艹In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yǒu
Same form: 酉 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 酉 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 酉 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin yǒu most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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