to deal in spirits

Components
酉 meaning component

  Meaning component

yǒu

  

wine

wine

古 sound component

  Sound component

  

old

Evolution

酤 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
酤 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
酤 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
酤 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

to deal in spirits; to deal in liquors

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6479th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+9164

Shuowen

“酤,一宿酒也。一曰買酒也。从酉,古聲。”


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