漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
酎: sake
N1 (our estimate)10 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
酉 carries the meaning · 寸 is drawn in
10 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
One reading, and the words that use it
チュウchuu · on'yomi · in compounds
- 焼酎しょうちゅうshōchū
- 酎ちゅうshōchū
- 芋焼酎いもじょうちゅうsweet potato shōchū
Also read チュ, かもす, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.”
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酎 sake · 寸
vs配 distribute · 己In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · zhòu
Same form: 酎 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 酎 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 酎 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zhòu 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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