酉

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/酉

Glyph origin
— an ancient vase used in making and storing fermented millet alcoholic drink. See.

Etymology

 * "wine; wine vessel"
 * From (STEDT); cognate with.


 * "tenth earthly branch"
 * suggests that this branch denoted the "waxing half-moon", "construed as a vessel filling with liquid". Noting 's observation that '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 ~  > yóu vs.  > 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 's association with the chicken, proposes that Chinese and Thai forms derived from Viet-Muong *rə̆k ~ *ruk, truncated from 🇨🇬, yet  thinks this correspondence unlikely. Possibly,  was arbitrarily associated with the chicken, just like  with the dragon.


 * “unitary”
 * From.

Definitions

 * 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)  unitary

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

Kanji

 * 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)

Etymology 1
From, from +.

Proper noun

 * 1) the, the tenth of the twelve

Etymology 2
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) the, the tenth of the twelve

Hanja

 * 1) hen
 * 2) full
 * 3) old; ancient
 * 4) irrigate