Original meaning: wine-master
Depicts a container of wine. Based on the original meaning "wine-master". The meaning later shifted to "elder" and "chief".
Components
Character Evolution
Component uses
Historical Pronunciations
| Middle Chinese | Old Chinese | Gloss | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter-Sagart | dzjuw | m-tsu | wine-master |
說文解字
《說文》：“酋，繹酒也。从酉，水半見於上。《禮》有‘大酋’，掌酒官也。”
Sources
- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
- Readings & variants
- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Baxter-Sagart
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)