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Kanji Detail for 酌 - "to pour"

酌

  • Meaning

    酌 means "to pour." Also associated with to consider, hostess.

    1. Pour - To serve drinks.

    2. Consider - To think about carefully.

    3. Hostess - One who serves drinks.

  • Four-character idioms with 酌

    • 情状酌量 じょうじょうしゃくりょう Listen taking the extenuating circumstances into consideration
    • 未練未酌 みれんみしゃく Listen regret and sympathy; having lingering attachment and sympathy toward someone
    • 浅酌低唱 せんしゃくていしょう Listen getting slightly intoxicated and humming a tune

  • Tattoo check: 酌

    • Verified meaning: to pour
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: to consider, hostess

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    bar-tending; serving sake; the host; draw (water); ladle; scoop; pump

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    serve wine; feast; deliberate

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to pour wine; to drink wine; to deliberate; to consider

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to pour wine, to drink wine; to deliberate, to consider

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To pour wine is called 酌. Today it is used as a general term for drinking wine. As in 小酌 (small drink), 獨酌 (drinking alone). | To select what is good and act upon it is called 酌. It refers to determining appropriate measure, like pouring wine to get the right amount. As in 參酌 (consider), 商酌 (deliberate).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    shaku(シャク) シャク

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    ku.mu(く-む) く-む

  • Strokes

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    10 strokes

  • Radical

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    酉 (hiyominotori・torihen・sakenotori・koyominotori)

  • Related Keywords

    to pour to consider hostess cup bowl sake server fill up decant dispense drinks ladle liquid offer provide replenish scoop

Sentences including 酌

  • I don't drink with my evening meal.

  • Champagne flowed all night.

  • The woman was asked to make allowance for the poor health of the baby.

  • When you employ him, you must make allowances for his youth.

  • The man pleaded for mercy, but he was sentenced to twenty years in prison for his crime.

  • It's fun to imagine those five eccentrics drinking together.

  • My husband likes to have a drink in the evening. He drinks 6 or more bottles of sparkling wine and 5 or 6 bottles of warm sake. Sometimes he has a day where he doesn't drink, but it has never lasted for more than two days.

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