酎

酎 U+914E, 酎 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-914E ← 配 [U+914D] CJK Unified Ideographs 酏 → [U+914F]

Translingual

Han character

酎 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一田木戈 (MWDI), four-corner 1460₀, composition ⿰酉寸)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1280, character 10
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39772
• Dae Jaweon: page 1779, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3573, character 5
• Unihan data for U+914E

Chinese

trad.		酎
simp. #		酎

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 酎
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
肘	*tkuʔ
疛	*tuʔ, *dus
紂	*duʔ
葤	*duʔ
酎	*l'us

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *l'us) : semantic 酉 (“wine”) + abbreviated phonetic 肘 (OC *tkuʔ). (Duan Yucai)

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhòu (zhou⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄡˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zau⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhòu
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄡˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhòu
    • Wade–Giles: chou⁴
    • Yale: jòu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jow
    • Palladius: чжоу (čžou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂoʊ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: zau⁶
    • Yale: jauh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzau⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: zeo⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sɐu̯²²/

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• Middle Chinese: drjuwH

Rime
Character	酎
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	澄 (11)
Final (韻)	尤 (136)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	直祐切
Baxter	drjuwH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ɖɨuH/
Pan Wuyun	/ɖiuH/
Shao Rongfen	/ȡiəuH/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ɖuwH/
Li Rong	/ȡiuH/
Wang Li	/ȡĭəuH/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ȡʱi̯ə̯uH/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zau6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[d]ruʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'us/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	酎
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhòu
Middle Chinese	‹ drjuwX ›
Old Chinese	/*[d]ruʔ/
English	new spirits made to ferment by addition of older spirits
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	酎
Reading #	1/1
No.	17549
Phonetic component	肘
Rime group	幽
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	胄
Old Chinese	/*l'us/

Definitions

酎

1. (archaic) strong wine that has been fermented multiple times

Compounds

• 嘗酎 / 尝酎
• 酎金 (zhòujīn)
• 醇酎

 

Japanese

Kanji

酎

(Jōyō kanji)

1. to brew (sake, etc.)
2. alcohol, sake

Readings

• Go-on: じゅう (jū)^{←ぢう (diu, historical)}
• Kan-on: ちゅう (chū, Jōyō)^{←ちう (tiu, historical)}
• Kun: かもす (kamosu, 酎す)

Korean

Hanja

酎 • (ju) (hangeul 주, revised ju, McCune–Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

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Vietnamese

Han character

酎: Hán Nôm readings: trữu

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