酌

酌 U+914C, 酌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-914C ← 酋 [U+914B] CJK Unified Ideographs 配 → [U+914D]

Translingual

Han character

酌 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一田心戈 (MWPI) or 一田心一 (MWPM), four-corner 1762₀, composition ⿰酉勺)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1280, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39768
• Dae Jaweon: page 1779, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3573, character 9
• Unihan data for U+914C

Chinese

trad.		酌
simp. #		酌
alternative forms		𫍍 𭅌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 酌
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

Characters in the same phonetic series (勺) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
豹	*preːwɢs
趵	*preːwɢs, *preːwɢ
尥	*breːw, *b·reːwɢs
箹	*ʔreːwɢs, *ʔreːwɢ
杓	*plew, *pʰlew, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
約	*ʔlewɢs, *ʔlewɢ
扚	*pleːwʔ, *pleːwɢ
釣	*pleːwɢs
瘹	*teːwɢs
芍	*ɡleːwʔ, *spʰlewɢ, *pl'ewɢ, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
酌	*pljewɢ
灼	*pljewɢ
勺	*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
彴	*pljewɢ
犳	*pljewɢ
妁	*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
汋	*bljewɢ, *sbreːwɢ
仢	*bljewɢ
葯	*qlewɢ, *qreːwɢ
礿	*lewɢ
肑	*preːwɢ, *pleːwɢ
瓝	*breːwɢ
的	*pleːwɢ
靮	*pleːwɢ
馰	*pleːwɢ
玓	*pleːwɢ
魡	*pleːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *pljewɢ) : semantic 酉 + phonetic 勺 (OC *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuó (zhuo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zoek³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chok

  (Meixian, Guangdong): zog⁵

• Northern Min (KCR): ciŏ̤
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chiok / chiak

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ziag⁴ / diag⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuó
    • Wade–Giles: cho²
    • Yale: jwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwo
    • Palladius: чжо (čžo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂu̯ɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zoek³
    • Yale: jeuk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoek⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêg³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sœːk̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chok
    • Hakka Romanization System: zog^ˋ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zog⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sok̚²/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: zog⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sɔk̚¹/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ciŏ̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siɔ²⁴/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiok
    • Tâi-lô: tsiok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciog
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɔk̚⁵/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /t͡siɔk̚³²/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiak
    • Tâi-lô: tsiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciag
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siak̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ziag⁴ / diag⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsiak / tiak
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siak̚²/, /tiak̚²/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 酌
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʈ͡ʂuo³⁵/
	Harbin	/ʈ͡ʂuo²⁴/ /t͡suo²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ʈ͡ʂuo⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ʈ͡ʂuə⁴²/
	Qingdao	/tʃuə⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/ʈ͡ʂuo⁴²/
	Xi'an	/p͡fo²¹/
	Xining	/ʈ͡ʂu²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ʈ͡ʂuə¹³/
	Lanzhou	/p͡fə¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ʈ͡ʂuɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡suo²¹³/
	Chengdu	/t͡so³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡so²¹/
	Kunming	/ʈ͡ʂo³¹/
	Nanjing	/ʈ͡ʂoʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/ʈ͡ʂuɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡suaʔ²/
	Pingyao	/ʈ͡ʂʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡saʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡saʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡sɑʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡sɑʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕa²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕiɔʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/t͡so⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/ʈ͡ʂo²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/ʈ͡ʂo²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡sɔʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sok̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/tʃok̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sœk̚³/
	Nanning	/t͡sœk̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sœk̚³/
Min	Xiamen (Hokkien)	/t͡siɔk̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Eastern Min)	/t͡suɔʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Northern Min)	/t͡siɔ²⁴/
	Shantou (Teochew)	/t͡siak̚²/
	Haikou (Hainanese)	/t͡siɔk̚⁵/ /t͡sio⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: tsyak

Rime
Character	酌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	藥 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之若切
Baxter	tsyak
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cɨak̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiak̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭak̚/
Bernhard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zoek3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tewk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pljewɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	酌
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhuó
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyak ›
Old Chinese	/*tewk/
English	pour; deliberate (v.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	酌
Reading #	1/1
No.	11189
Phonetic component	勺
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	灼
Old Chinese	/*pljewɢ/
Notes	勺分化字

Definitions

酌

1. to pour an alcoholic beverage
2. to drink
3. alcohol and meal
4. to consider; to deliberate

Compounds

• 參酌／参酌 (cānzhuó)
• 商酌 (shāngzhuó)
• 大宴小酌
• 字斟句酌
• 對酌／对酌
• 小酌 (xiǎozhuó)
• 斟酌 (zhēnzhuó)
• 斟酌損益／斟酌损益
• 杯酌
• 泂酌
• 洗盞更酌／洗盏更酌
• 淺斟低酌／浅斟低酌
• 清酌 (qīngzhuó)
• 清酌庶饈／清酌庶馐
• 獨酌／独酌 (dúzhuó)
• 盃酌／杯酌
• 祭酌
• 菲酌
• 薄酌
• 蠡酌
• 觴酌／觞酌
• 貪泉酌飲／贪泉酌饮
• 酌中
• 酌古御今
• 酌奪／酌夺
• 酌定 (zhuódìng)
• 酌情 (zhuóqíng)
• 酌獻／酌献
• 酌酒 (zhuójiǔ)
• 酌量
• 酌飲／酌饮

 

Japanese

Kanji

酌

(Jōyō kanji)

1. pour sake

Readings

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しゃく (shaku, Jōyō)
• Kun: くむ (kumu, 酌む, Jōyō)

Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 酌 (MC tsyak). Recorded as Middle Korean 쟉 (cyak) (Yale: cyak) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource

酌 (eumhun 술 부을 작 (sul bueul jak))

1. hanja form^? of 작 (“to pour alcoholic beverages”)

Compounds

Compounds

• 짐작 (斟酌, jimjak)
• 참작 (參酌, chamjak)
• 수작 (酬酌, sujak)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [1]