vinegar

Components

Meaning component
yǒu wine

wine

Sound component
liú birth
Unknown component
mǐn, mǐng dish

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Old Chinese
Zhengzhangqʰeː

說文解字

酸也。作醯以𩱙以酒。从𩱙、酒並省,从皿。皿,器也。

Sources

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