酋

酋	U+914B, 酋 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-914B

Translingual

There is regional variation in the first two strokes of the character:
- In mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, they are written as 丷 according to the modern standards.
- In Japan and Korea, they are written as 八 due to the incorrect copying of Han Chinese script from the Tang Dynasty by scholars from Jo-seon Dynasty.

trad.		酋
simp. ^#		酋

Pictogram (象形) : Some exposed liquid (八) above an alcohol vessel (酉). See also 酒.

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: qiú
  - Zhuyin: ㄑㄧㄡˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: cióu
  - Wade–Giles: chʻiu²
  - Yale: chyóu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chyou
  - Palladius: цю (cju)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: jau⁴
  - Yale: yàuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: jau⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: yeo⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɐu̯²¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: siù
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /sieu⁵³/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiû
  - Tâi-lô: tshiû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: chiuu
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰiu¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /t͡sʰiu²⁴/
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iû
  - Tâi-lô: iû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: iuu
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /iu¹³/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Quanzhou): /iu²⁴/
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: siû
  - Tâi-lô: siû
  - Phofsit Daibuun: siuu
  - IPA (Taipei): /siu²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /siu²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: iu⁵ / ciu⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: iû / tshiû
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /iu⁵⁵/, /t͡sʰiu⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ⁶zhieu
  - MiniDict: zhieu^去
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³xxieu
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ʑiɤ²³/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	酋
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	qiú
Middle Chinese	‹ dzjuw ›
Old Chinese	/*m-tsu/
English	wine-master
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

酋

酋

酋 • (chu) (hangeul 추, revised chu, McCune–Reischauer ch'u, Yale chwu)

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酋: Hán Nôm readings: tù

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