Radical 164

Radical 164 is with the meaning "alcohol" is one of twenty of the 214 traditional radicals of Chinese characters that are written by seven strokes.

With 56 combinations of signs in Mathews ' Chinese - English Dictionary, there are quite a lot of characters that can be found at this radical in the lexicon.

The alcohol radical in the long mark only takes a list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 164 position. In modern abbreviation dictionaries he can find a completely different place. In the New Sino- German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, he is, for example, to 193 place.

The character evolved from the pictorial representation of an amphora with a narrow mouth, big belly and Henkel. Threw this one amphora into the water, they filled up, and stood up as soon as it was full on.

Oracle bones and seal script form show a bottle-shaped vessel with a filling wine. Wine, brandy is the primordial importance of酋. The sign of the radical is therefore available in this context of meaning :醇( = fine wine ) ,酤( buy = wine or sell ) ,酬( = chou = a toast ) ,醉( zui = drunk) ,醒( xing come = to his senses ). In the production of an alcoholic drink the alcoholic fermentation发酵( fajiao ) plays a crucial role. 酱油( Jiangyou = soy sauce) and醋( cu = vinegar) are indeed no alcoholic liquids, but found the Chinese their manufacturing process comparable, so they attached the sign酋( you) as bearers of meaning. Even a sour taste comes close to the alcoholic beverages, why酸sour ( suan ) is also written with酋( you).

The sign for wine, brandy酒( jiu ), later given the radical 85, water ( shui氵) preceded: so酋( you) at the same time as the sound and sense of support functions here. 酋( = chief ) actually meant long aged wine (陈酒chenjiu ). The seal script characters shows the wine bottle, two short lines above have indicated that their escapes the strong scent of the wine.

Character connections that are ruled by the radical 164

In Unicode block Kangxi radicals, the radical is coded 164 under the code point number 12,195 (U 2 FA3 ).

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