酿
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to ferment; to brew; to make honey (of bees); to lead to; to form gradually; wine; stuffed vegetables (cooking method)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 酉 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 釀
- Common rank
- #2,589
- Unicode
- U+917F
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 酿
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 酿热物 | biological fuel (such as horse dung) | |
| 酿酒业 | brewing industry; wine industry | |
| 酿造学 | zymurgy | |
| 酿母菌 | yeast | |
| 佳利酿 | Carignan (grape type) | |
| 酿成 | to make (wine or spirits); (fig.) to lead to (a bad result) | |
| 酿制 | to brew (beer, soy sauce etc); to make (wine, vinegar etc); to distill (spirits) | |
| 甜酒酿 | fermented rice | |
| 精酿啤酒 | craft beer | |
| 酒酿 | sweet fermented rice; glutinous rice wine | |
| 酿酒 | to make a fermented drink (i.e. to brew beer, make wine etc) | |
| 佳丽酿 | Carignan (grape type) | |
| 酿造 | to brew; to make (wine, vinegar, soybean paste etc) by fermentation | |
| 私酿 | to brew alcoholic drinks illegally | |
| 佳酿 | excellent wine | |
| 酿酶 | zymase (enzyme in yeast involved in fermentation) | |
| 酝酿 | (of alcohol) to ferment; (of a crisis) to be brewing; to mull over (an issue); to hold exp… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 良 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 良 sound part | good, virtuous, respectable | |
| 浪 | breaker, wave; reckless, wasteful | |
| 娘 | mother; young girl; woman; wife | |
| 朗 | bright, clear, distinct | |
| 狼 | wolf | |
| 粮 | food, grain, provisions | |
| 琅 | pure, white; carnelian | |
| 踉 | to hop, to jump; hurried, urgent | |
| 锒 | chain, lock; ornament | |
| 稂 | grass; weeds | |
| 莨 | Japanese belladonna; Scopolia japonica |