noun

Meanings

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

Examples

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

Tips

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

Components

radical
yǒu
wine vessel; the 10th earthly branch
The radical pictures a wine jar and marks fermentation and alcohol words. It gives its 'wine / spirit' meaning, the same radical as wine and drunk.
phonetic
all; minor official
Right side 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.

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