醋
cùzuò HSK6

vinegar

Aged 昔 wine 酉; wine gone sour

Components

酉
酉 Meaning component
yǒu wine
昔
昔 Meaning component
xī, cuò in the past, ancient times

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangsʰaːɡs

說文解字

客酌主人也。从酉昔聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica