酉

酉 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 一金田一 (MCWM), four-corner 1060₀, composition ⿴西一)

1. Kangxi radical #164, ⾣.

• Appendix:Chinese radical/酉
• 𫢞, 唒, 𡜳, 𢭳, 𬌲, 逎, 𣁹, 梄, 𥙫, 𥆺, 𥟁, 綇(𦈋), 𧣮, 𨁪, 輏, 𩳜, 鯂
• 𫹉, 𡷾, 莤, 蒏, 𥭛, 𩭓, 𠩚, 庮, 㾞, 槱, 歠, 𠥤

• KangXi: page 1280, character 2
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39763
• Dae Jaweon: page 1778, character 36
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3572, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9149

Historical forms of the character 酉
Shang		Western Zhou	Spring and Autumn	Warring States			Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)		Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Ancient script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) — an ancient vase used in making and storing fermented millet alcoholic drink. See 酒.

"wine; wine vessel"

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *jəw (“liquor”) (STEDT); cognate with 酒 (OC *ʔsluʔ, “wine”).

"tenth earthly branch"

Smith (2011) suggests that this branch denoted the "waxing half-moon", "construed as a vessel filling with liquid". Noting Schuessler (2007)'s observation that 酉 (yǒu)'s OC pronunciation started with *r-, Smith reconstructs *r-juʔ which would later lost its archaic pre-initial *r-, the same phonological split seen in pairs like 游 (OC) ~ 遊 (OC *ju, “to flow, to roam”) > yóu vs. 流 (OC *r-ju, “flow”) > liú. Smith further supposes that *r-juʔ, is an endoactive derivative of *r-ju "flow" by the suffix *-ʔ, meaning "the flowing stage".

As for 酉 (yǒu)'s association with the chicken, Norman (1985) proposes that Chinese and Thai forms derived from Viet-Muong *rə̆k ~ *ruk, truncated from Proto-Vietic *r-kaː (“chicken”), yet Ferlus (2013) thinks this correspondence unlikely. Possibly, 酉 (yǒu) was arbitrarily associated with the chicken, just like 辰 (chén) with the dragon.

“unitary”

From English unitary.

酉

1. an alcoholic drink vessel
2. tenth of twelve earthly branches (十二支)
3. rooster (鷄) of Chinese zodiac
4. the period from 17:00 to 19:00
5. (mathematics) unitary

• (earthly branches) 地支; 子, 丑, 寅, 卯, 辰, 巳, 午, 未, 申, 酉, 戌, 亥

Although it remains associated with alcoholic drink, the character alone is mostly used as the tenth earthly branch in the Chinese cyclical calendar.

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. "sake" radical (さけづぐり)
2. "bird of the zodiac" radical (ひよみのとり, とりへん)
3. rooster (tenth sign of the Chinese zodiac)

• Go-on: ゆ (yu)
• Kan-on: ゆう (yū)^{←いう (iu, historical)}
• Kun: とり (tori, 酉)
• Nanori: なが (naga); みのる (minoru)

• 卯酉線(ぼうゆうせん) (bōyūsen)
• 酉年(とりどし) (toridoshi)

From 鶏 (niwatori, tori, “chicken”), from 庭 (niwa, “garden”) + 鳥 (tori, “bird”).

• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) とり [tòrí] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [to̞ɾʲi]

• Homophones: 鳥, 鶏

酉(とり) • (Tori) 

1. the Rooster, the tenth of the twelve Earthly Branches

From Middle Chinese 酉 (yuw^X).

酉(ゆう) • (Yū) ^{←いう (iu)?}

1. the Rooster, the tenth of the twelve Earthly Branches

酉 (eumhun 닭/열째 지지 유 (dak/yeoljjae jiji yu))

1. hen,
2. full
3. old; ancient
4. irrigate

酉: Hán Nôm readings: dấu, dậu, giấu, giậu

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