酌

酌

酌 U+914C, 酌 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-914C ← 酋 [U+914B] CJK Unified Ideographs 配 → [U+914D]

Translingual

Han character

酌 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+3, 10 strokes, cangjie input 一田心戈 (MWPI) or 一田心一 (MWPM), four-corner 1762₀, composition ⿰酉勺)

References

• KangXi: page 1280, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39768
• Dae Jaweon: page 1779, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3573, character 9
• Unihan data for U+914C

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Chinese

trad.		酌
simp. #		酌

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 酌
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script

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

	Old Chinese
豹	*preːwɢs
趵	*preːwɢs, *preːwɢ
尥	*breːw, *b·reːwɢs
箹	*ʔreːwɢs, *ʔreːwɢ
杓	*plew, *pʰlew, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
約	*ʔlewɢs, *ʔlewɢ
扚	*pleːwʔ, *pleːwɢ
釣	*pleːwɢs
瘹	*teːwɢs
芍	*ɡleːwʔ, *spʰlewɢ, *pl'ewɢ, *bljewɢ, *pleːwɢ
酌	*pljewɢ
灼	*pljewɢ
勺	*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
彴	*pljewɢ
犳	*pljewɢ
妁	*pljewɢ, *bljewɢ
汋	*bljewɢ, *sbreːwɢ
仢	*bljewɢ
葯	*qlewɢ, *qreːwɢ
礿	*lewɢ
肑	*preːwɢ, *pleːwɢ
瓝	*breːwɢ
的	*pleːwɢ
靮	*pleːwɢ
馰	*pleːwɢ
玓	*pleːwɢ
魡	*pleːwɢ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *pljewɢ) : semantic 酉 + phonetic 勺 (OC *pljewɢ, *bljewɢ).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhuó (zhuo²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄨㄛˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zoek³
• Hakka

  (Sixian, PFS): chok

  (Meixian, Guangdong): zog⁵

• Min Bei (KCR): ciŏ̤
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): chiok / chiak

  (Teochew, Peng'im): ziag⁴ / diag⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhuó
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄨㄛˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhuó
    • Wade–Giles: cho²
    • Yale: jwó
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jwo
    • Palladius: чжо (čžo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂwɔ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zoek³
    • Yale: jeuk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzoek⁸
    • Guangdong Romanization: zêg³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ʃœːk̚³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chok
    • Hakka Romanization System: zog`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: zog⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sok̚²/
  • (Meixian)
    • Guangdong: zog⁵
    • Sinological IPA: /t͡sɔk̚¹/
• Min Bei
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ciŏ̤
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siɔ²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiok
    • Tâi-lô: tsiok
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciog
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung, Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɔk̚³²/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiɔk̚⁵/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chiak
    • Tâi-lô: tsiak
    • Phofsit Daibuun: ciag
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiak̚³²/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: ziag⁴ / diag⁴
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tsiak / tiak
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siak̚²/, /tiak̚²/

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• Dialectal data

Variety	Location	edit 酌
Mandarin	Beijing	/ʈ͡ʂuo³⁵/
	Harbin	/ʈ͡ʂuo²⁴/ /t͡suo²⁴/
	Tianjin	/ʈ͡ʂuo⁴⁵/
	Jinan	/ʈ͡ʂuə⁴²/
	Qingdao	/tʃuə⁵⁵/
	Zhengzhou	/ʈ͡ʂuo⁴²/
	Xi'an	/p͡fo²¹/
	Xining	/ʈ͡ʂu²⁴/
	Yinchuan	/ʈ͡ʂuə¹³/
	Lanzhou	/p͡fə¹³/
	Ürümqi	/ʈ͡ʂuɤ⁵¹/
	Wuhan	/t͡suo²¹³/
	Chengdu	/t͡so³¹/
	Guiyang	/t͡so²¹/
	Kunming	/ʈ͡ʂo³¹/
	Nanjing	/ʈ͡ʂoʔ⁵/
	Hefei	/ʈ͡ʂuɐʔ⁵/
Jin	Taiyuan	/t͡suaʔ²/
	Pingyao	/ʈ͡ʂʌʔ¹³/
	Hohhot	/t͡saʔ⁴³/
Wu	Shanghai	/t͡saʔ⁵/
	Suzhou	/t͡sɑʔ⁵/
	Hangzhou	/t͡sɑʔ⁵/
	Wenzhou	/t͡ɕa²¹³/
Hui	Shexian	/t͡ɕiɔʔ²¹/
	Tunxi	/t͡so⁵/
Xiang	Changsha	/ʈ͡ʂo²⁴/
	Xiangtan	/ʈ͡ʂo²⁴/
Gan	Nanchang	/t͡sɔʔ⁵/
Hakka	Meixian	/t͡sok̚¹/
	Taoyuan	/tʃok̚²²/
Cantonese	Guangzhou	/t͡sœk̚³/
	Nanning	/t͡sœk̚³³/
	Hong Kong	/t͡sœk̚³/
Min	Xiamen (Min Nan)	/t͡siɔk̚³²/
	Fuzhou (Min Dong)	/t͡suɔʔ²³/
	Jian'ou (Min Bei)	/t͡siɔ²⁴/
	Shantou (Min Nan)	/t͡siak̚²/
	Haikou (Min Nan)	/t͡siɔk̚⁵/ /t͡sio⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: /t͡ɕɨɐk̚/

Rime
Character	酌
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	章 (23)
Final (韻)	陽 (107)
Tone (調)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	之若切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/t͡ɕɨɐk̚/
Pan Wuyun	/t͡ɕiɐk̚/
Shao Rongfen	/t͡ɕiɑk̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/cɨak̚/
Li Rong	/t͡ɕiak̚/
Wang Li	/t͡ɕĭak̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/t͡ɕi̯ak̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	zhuo
Expected Cantonese Reflex	zoek3

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*tewk/

  (Zhengzhang): /*pljewɢ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	酌
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	zhuó
Middle Chinese	‹ tsyak ›
Old Chinese	/*tewk/
English	pour; deliberate (v.)
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	酌
Reading #	1/1
No.	11189
Phonetic component	勺
Rime group	藥
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	灼
Old Chinese	/*pljewɢ/
Notes	勺分化字

Definitions

酌

1. to pour an alcoholic beverage
2. to drink
3. alcohol and meal
4. to consider; to deliberate

Compounds

商酌 (shāngzhuó) 大宴小酌 字斟句酌 小酌 (xiǎozhuó) 斟酌 (zhēnzhuó) 杯酌 泂酌 清酌 (qīngzhuó) 祭酌 菲酌 薄酌

蠡酌 酌中 酌古御今 酌定 酌情 (zhuóqíng) 酌酒 (zhuójiǔ) 酌量 (zhuóliáng) 參酌／参酌 (cānzhuó) 對酌／对酌 斟酌損益／斟酌损益

洗盞更酌／洗盏更酌 淺斟低酌／浅斟低酌 清酌庶饈／清酌庶馐 獨酌／独酌 (dúzhuó) 盃酌／杯酌 觴酌／觞酌 貪泉酌飲／贪泉酌饮 酌奪／酌夺 酌獻／酌献 酌飲／酌饮

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Japanese

Kanji

酌

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. pour sake

Readings

• Go-on: しゃく (shaku, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: しゃく (shaku, Jōyō)
• Kun: くむ (kumu, 酌む, Jōyō)

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Korean

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 酌 (MC t͡ɕɨɐk̚). Recorded as Middle Korean 쟉 (cyak) (Yale: cyak) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Hanja

Wikisource酌 (eumhun 술 부을 작 (sul bueul jak))

1. Hanja form^? of 작 (“to pour alcoholic beverages”).

Compounds

Compounds

• 짐작 (斟酌, jimjak)
• 참작 (參酌, chamjak)
• 수작 (酬酌, sujak)

References

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.