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酒 = 水 + 酉
酒 is a Japanese kanji written with 10 strokes, listed here under the keyword “sake”. It is built from 水 (water) and 酉 (sign of the bird). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1535.
- Keyword
- sake
- RTK frame
- 1535
- Strokes
- 10
- On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
- シュ
- Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
- さけ, さか-
- Script
- Japanese kanji
- Also known as
- ради бога
- Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
- 酒 wine
Decomposition
Primary decomposition
How to find 酒 without knowing its reading
On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “water” + “sign of the bird”. 酒 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.
Open 酒 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.