字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE
Oracle bone, bronze and small seal: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Animals & Wildlife
酉
酉 bird of the west, wine vessel
ひよみのとり hiyominotori
7 strokesRadical of 13 kanjiPart of 14
Your ink in 酉0% painted · 0 of 13 familiar
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. When you see it, think of things that have "aged" or "mellowed" like a fine wine, or the specific time transition of the zodiac. It brings the richness of tradition and the deep, fermented wisdom of time to any character it joins.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates alcoholic drinks (sake, wine), fermentation, aging or ripening, the west (sunset), or celebratory/social gatherings involving drink.
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 酉, with sourced origins
- 酒sakeシュ · さけ
水 + 酉sound
酉 is the original pictogram for this word; 水 was added later to distinguish.
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 酔drunkスイ · よう
酉 + 卒sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, 醉, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 酉 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 13 kanji