He raised a goblet of wine to wish his host long life.
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history
卮 is a classical name for a round ceremonial wine vessel and is not used independently in modern Chinese, which says 杯. It also appears in the philosophical term 卮言 (flowing, ever-shifting speech) from Zhuangzi. You meet it in old texts and the variant 巵.
register
Classical and literary only. Use 杯 in modern Chinese for a drinking vessel.
Components
pictograph
卮zhī
an ancient wine goblet
Treated as one unit: a small lid-stroke over a body that curls around like a rounded vessel with a base. The whole shape is the goblet itself, so 卮 is not split into parts.
Filed under radical 卩 (jié, #26) by convention. 卩 is not a separate component in 卮, so no strokes are highlighted.
