醋

醋 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一田廿日 (MWTA), four-corner 1466₁, composition ⿰酉昔)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1284, character 28
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39911
• Dae Jaweon: page 1785, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3585, character 8
• Unihan data for U+918B

Historical forms of the character 醋
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰaːɡs) : semantic 酉 + phonetic 昔 (OC *sjaːɡ).

醋

1. (literal) vinegar
2. (figurative, chiefly between lovers) jealousy; envy; bitterness
3. (Hainanese, figurative) glutton

• (vinegar):

醋

1. Ancient written form of 酢 (“to toast back to the host”).

• “醋”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “醋”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 40.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. vinegar

From Middle Chinese 醋 (MC tshuH); compare Mandarin 醋 (cù):

• Go-on: す (su)
• Kan-on: そ (so)
• Kan’yō-on: さく (saku)

From Middle Chinese 醋 (MC dzak); compare Mandarin 醋 (zuò):

• Go-on: ざく (zaku)
• Kan-on: さく (saku)

From native Japanese roots:

• Kun: す (su, 醋)、すい (sui, 醋い)、むくいる (mukuiru, 醋いる)

In modern Japanese, 醋 is mostly replaced by 酢, due to the deprecation of non-tōyō kanji caused by the Japanese script reform.

醋(す) • (su) 

1. Alternative spelling of 酢 (“vinegar”)

醋 • (cho, jak) (hangeul 초, 작, revised cho, jak, McCune–Reischauer ch'o, chak, Yale cho, cak)

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醋: Hán Nôm readings: thố

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