醑

xǔ
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 fine wine
  2. 2 (pharmacy) spirit; an alcoholic solution of a volatile substance, as in 氯仿醑 chloroform spirit

Examples

HSK 7-9
Fāngxiāng ān xǔ shì yī zhǒng yào róngyè.
Aromatic ammonia spirit is a kind of medicinal solution.

Tips

register
The 'fine wine' sense of 醑 is literary and old. Its only living use is the pharmacy term 醑剂 (a spirit / alcoholic solution), a borrowed translation sense, not everyday vocabulary.

Components

radical
酉 yǒu
wine vessel; the 10th earthly branch
The 酉 radical pictures a wine jar and marks fermentation and alcohol words. It gives 醑 its 'wine / spirit' meaning, the same radical as 酒 wine and 醉 drunk.
phonetic
胥 xū
all; minor official
Right side 胥 is the sound element; the reading shifted from xū to xǔ. It carries no meaning here and works purely as the phonetic tag for this wine word.

Stroke Order

醑 xǔ