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酎

zhòu

Character

What 酎 means

1. strong wine

Characters built on 寸

These share the phonetic component 寸 (cùn), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 守shǒuto guard; to defend; to keep watch
• 寿shòulong life; old age; age
• 肘zhǒuelbow; pork shoulder
• 纣zhòucrupper (harness strap running over a horse's hindquarters and under its tail)

Sounds the same

Read zhòu, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 骤sudden; unexpected; abrupt
• 宙eternity; (geology) eon
• 昼daytime
• 皱to wrinkle; wrinkled; to crease
• 咒incantation; magic spell; curse
• 绉crepe; wrinkle
• 胄helmet; descendants
• 纣crupper (harness strap running over a horse's hindquarters and under its tail)
• 甃brickwork of well
• 㑇(old) beautiful; clever
• 㤘(dialect) stubborn
• 咮beak of bird; peck at

Go deeper

• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zhòu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.