Hanja Analyzer
酎

酎 — ju

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
진한술 주
Romanization
ju
English
double-fermented wine, vintage wine
Mandarin
zhòu
Japanese on'yomi
チュウ, ジュ
Japanese kun'yomi
かも.す
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Strokes
10
Radical
酉 (164, 3 residual)
Unicode
U+914E

Parts that make up 酎

  • 酉 닭 유 술 담는 항아리술과 발효, 익히는 일
  • 寸 마디 촌 尊 을 줄인 꼴 또는 팔의 맥 짚는 자리손으로 재고 다루는 일, 법도

How 酎 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 酎 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 酉, 肘.

Japanese words with 酎

  • 焼酎しょうちゅう shōchū; Japanese spirit distilled from sweet potatoes, rice, etc.
  • 酎ちゅう shōchū
  • 酎ハイチューハイ chūhai; shōchū highball; cocktail of shōchū with tonic water
  • 芋焼酎いもじょうちゅう sweet potato shōchū
  • 麦焼酎むぎしょうちゅう barley shōchū
  • 米焼酎こめしょうちゅう rice shōchū
  • 栗焼酎くりしょうちゅう chestnut shōchū
  • 球磨焼酎くまじょうちゅう Kumamoto rice shōchū
  • 焼酎漬けしょうちゅうづけ fruit, etc. preserved in shōchū
  • 本格焼酎ほんかくしょうちゅう shōchū made by the simple distillation process
  • 黒糖焼酎こくとうしょうちゅう brown sugar shōchū
  • そば焼酎そばしょうちゅう buckwheat shōchū; soba shōchū

Other hanja read “주”

Other hanja with radical 酉

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