Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife

酌: bar-tending, serving sake

Also: the host, draw (water), ladle, scoop, pump

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

酉 carries the meaning · 勺 gives the sound

10 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

シャクshaku · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 媒酌ばいしゃくmatchmaking; acting as a go-between
  • 晩酌ばんしゃくdrink at home with one's evening meal
  • 情状酌量じょうじょうしゃくりょうtaking the extenuating circumstances into…

Also read くむ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Learn it 4 steps
Print sheet Present
成り立ち

Where it comes from

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.”
More in the 酉 bird of the west story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
酉

Also built on bird of the west (酉)

All 13
勺

Also built on ladle (勺)

酌 takes the 勺 family's reading, シャク (shaku).

Also read シャク

10 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
酌 bar-tending · 勺
vs酎 sake · 寸
酌 has 勺 where 酎 has 寸.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhuó

Same form: 酌 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
酌 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
酌 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin zhuó most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

One click tells us. No sign-up.