酒

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Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Etymology[edit]

氵 (“water, liquid”) + 酉 (“a wine vessel”)

Han character[edit]

酒 (radical 164 酉+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 水一金田 (EMCW), four-corner 31160, composition ⿰氵酉)

  1. wine, rice wine
  2. distilled spirit, liquor
  3. alcoholic beverages generally

Usage notes[edit]

This character is often translated as “wine”. However, it has always applied to strong alcoholic beverages made from fermented grains such as 黄酒, rather than or in preference to those made from grapes. Since the advent of distilling, it has also applied to hard liquor such as 白酒, while the qualified 葡萄酒 is used for wine proper and 啤酒 is used for beer.

References[edit]

  • KangXi: page 1281, character 3
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39776
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1779, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3574, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9152

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

酒 (Jyutping zau2, Yale jau2)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
酒

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. rice wine
  2. alcohol

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Compounds

Etymology 1[edit]

Originally /ki1/. Likely realized as [ki] (see Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai).

Noun[edit]

酒 (hiragana き, romaji ki)

  1. sake
    • 720: Nihon Shoki, volume 32 (Kodai Kayōshū, page 61)
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Etymology 2[edit]

Cognate with obsolete 奇し (kushi, “strange, wondrous, miraculous”), which is also the root for 薬 (kusuri, “medicine”).[1][2]

Noun[edit]

酒 (hiragana くし, romaji kushi)

  1. sake, rice wine
    • 720: Nihon Shoki, volume 32 (Kodai Kayōshū, page 61)
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Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

/sake2/ [sakəj] → [sake]

Various theories exist. Possible connection with 栄え (sakae), the stem of verb 栄える (sakaeru, “to thrive, to flourish”).[2][3]

Noun[edit]

酒 (hiragana さけ, romaji sake)

  1. alcohol beverage (e.g., wine, whisky, or sake)
  2. sake, saké, Japanese rice wine
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 4[edit]

Bound form of /sake/, only used as a prefix before other nouns. In older forms of Japanese, could also be used to prefix verbs.[1][4]

Prefix[edit]

酒 (hiragana さか, romaji saka)

  1. alcohol
  2. sake, saké, Japanese rice wine

Etymology 5[edit]

Originally a 女房詞 (nyōbōshi, “women's word”). Possibly derived from reduplication of the first syllable sa from sake. Alternately, may be derived by metaphor from the Chinese-derived euphemism for sake, 竹葉 (chikuyō, literally, "bamboo leaves"), as 笹 (sasa) refers to a type of short, leafy bamboo.[5]

Noun[edit]

酒 (hiragana ささ, romaji sasa)

  1. alcohol
  2. sake, saké, Japanese rice wine

See also[edit]

See also

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1988, Kokugo Dai Jiten Dictionary, edition Revised edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Shogakukan:
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "酒" (in Japanese), Lookvise, Inc.: 2003. URL accessed on 2012-06-07.
  3. ^ 1988, Seinosuke Sugama, Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, "酒" article[1] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Heibonsha, retrieved on 2012-06-07:
  4. ^ 1998, Akira Matsumura editor, Digital Daijirin[2] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Shogakukan, ISBN 4095012129, retrieved on 2012-06-07:
  5. ^ 2006, Akira Matsumura editor, Daijirin[3], edition 3rd edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Sanseido, ISBN 4-385-13905-9, retrieved on 2012-06-07:

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

酒 (hangeul 주 (ju), revised ju, McCune-Reischauer chu, Yale cwu)

Compounds[edit]

Mandarin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

酒 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin jiǔ)

  1. Wine, spirits, liquor, alcoholic beverage
    你幹嗎不喝點酒? (trad.)
    你干吗不喝点酒? (simp.)
    Nǐ gànmá bù hē diǎn jiǔ?
    Why don't you have a drink [of alcohol]?

Usage notes[edit]

This word is often translated as “wine”. However, it commonly stands for many types of fermented drinks and is not specific to grapes.

See also[edit]

  • 葡萄酒 (pútáo-jiǔ, grape wine)
  • 氿 (alternative character of 「酒」)

Compounds[edit]

Middle Chinese[edit]

Han character[edit]

酒 (*tziǒu)

Min Nan[edit]

Han character[edit]

酒 (chiú)

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

酒 (tửu, rượu, giậu)

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