This logogram is of ideographic origin and it was designed to evoke:

To leave 奄 meat in wine 酉; 奄 also provides the pronunciation

  • 醃 to pickle, to marinate; to salt, to cure yān
    • 酉 wine; wine vessel; chemical yǒu
      • 西 west, western, westward xī
        • 兀 weak; lame wù
          • 一 one; a, an; alone yī
          • 儿 son, child ér
        • 口 mouth; entrance, gate, opening kǒu
      • 一 one; a, an; alone yī
    • 奄 to remain, to tarry; feeble yǎn
      • 大 big, great, vast, high, deep dà
      • 电 electricity; electric; lightning diàn
        • 曰 to speak; to say yuē
        • 乚 secret, hidden, mysterious; small, minute; to conceal gōu

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