酌

Meaning

酌 centers on the act of pouring or drawing liquid, especially in a social or ceremonial context. The core idea is serving drinks—typically sake—as a host, which extends naturally to drawing water, ladling, or pumping liquid.

• 晩酌ばんしゃく

  drink at home with one's evening meal; dinner-time drink

• 酌量しゃくりょう

  taking into consideration; making allowances

• 酌しゃく

  pouring alcohol

• 斟酌しんしゃく

  taking into consideration; making allowances (for)

• 媒酌人ばいしゃくにん

  matchmaker; go-between

• 媒酌ばいしゃく

  matchmaking; acting as a go-between

• 情状酌量じょうじょうしゃくりょう

  taking the extenuating circumstances into consideration

• 酌むくむ
  N2

  to pour (sake); to serve; to drink (together)

• お酌おしゃく

  pouring alcohol

• 参酌さんしゃく

  comparison and choosing the good; consultation; referring to

• 対酌たいしゃく

  sitting across from each other and drinking together

• 小酌しょうしゃく

  drinking together in a small group

• 意を酌むいをくむ

  to enter into a person's feelings; to guess what someone feels (using one's intuition)

• 手酌てじゃく

  helping oneself to a drink; pouring one's own drink

• 手酌酒てじゃくさけ

  pouring one's own drinks; drinking alone

• 未練未酌みれんみしゃく

  regret and sympathy; having lingering attachment and sympathy toward someone

• 未練未酌がないみれんみしゃくがない

  unsympathetic and inconsiderate; coldhearted

• 浅酌低唱せんしゃくていしょう

  getting slightly intoxicated and humming a tune

• 独酌どくしゃく

  drinking alone; solitary drinking

• 献酌けんしゃく

  offering a drink

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