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Pinyin:
  
yǒu

Wade–Giles:
  
yu3

Jyutping:
  
jau5

Bopomofo:
  
ㄧㄡˇ

Cantonese Yale:
  
yau5

Hiragana:
  
ユウ, とり yū, tori

Radical 164

Radical 164 meaning "wine" or "alcohol" is 1 of 20 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals total) composed of 7 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary there are 290 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

In Chinese astrology, 酉 represents the tenth Earthly Branch and corresponds to the Rooster in the Chinese zodiac.

Literature

  • Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1. 
  • Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1. 

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