Radical 164

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← 163 Radical 164 (U+2FA3) 165 →
(U+9149) "wine, alcohol"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:yǒu
Bopomofo:ㄧㄡˇ
Wade–Giles:yu3
Cantonese Yale:yau5
Jyutping:jau5
Japanese Kana:ユウ yū (on'yomi)
とり tori (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:유 yu
Hán-Việt:dậu
Names
Chinese name(s):酉字旁 yǒuzìpáng
Japanese name(s):酉偏/とりへん torihen
酒の酉/さけのとり sake no tori
日読みの酉/ひよみのとり hiyomi no tori ("hiyomi" means Earthly Branches)
暦の酉/こよみのとり koyomi no tori ("koyomi" means calendar)
酒旁/さけつくり saketsukuri
Hangul:닭 dak
Stroke order animation

Radical 164 or radical wine (酉部) meaning "wine" or "alcohol" is one of the 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, 290 characters (out of 49,030) can found under this radical.

is also the 153rd indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

In Chinese astrology, 酉 represents the tenth Earthly Branch and corresponds to the Rooster in the Chinese zodiac.

Evolution

Derived characters

Strokes Characters
+0
+2
+3
+4 JP (=醉) (= -> ) SC (=醞)
+5
+6 SC (=醱) (=酬) SC (=醯) SC (=醬)
+7 SC (=釅) SC (=釃) SC (=釀)
+8
+9 (= -> ) (=醇) HK (=醞) JP (=醱)
+10 (= -> )
+11
+12
+13 JP (=釀)
+14 (=酬)
+16 (= -> )
+17
+18
+19
+20

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.