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Kanji Detail for 酌 - "to pour, to consider, hostess"
酌
- Meaning
酌 means "to pour, to consider, hostess."
Pour - To serve drinks.
Consider - To think about carefully.
Hostess - One who serves drinks.
- 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).
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