dānzhèn

wine with bird poison added

Suspect  wine 

Components

Meaning component
yǒu wine
Meaning component
yín, yóu to move on

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartdrimH[l]r[ə]m-sto poison
Zhengzhangʔl'uːm

說文解字

樂酒也。从酉冘聲。

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica