漢字Kanji · in Animals & Wildlife
酔: drunk, feel sick
Also: poisoned, elated, spellbound
JLPT N111 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
- 酉bird of the west(meaning)
- 卆(sound)
酉 carries the meaning · 卆 gives the sound
11 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Four readings, and the words that use each
スイsui · on'yomi · in compounds
- 麻酔ますいanaesthesia; anesthesia
- 陶酔とうすいintoxication
ようyou · kun'yomi · on its own
- 酔うようto get drunk; to become intoxicated
よいyoi · kun'yomi
- 酔いよいdrunkenness; intoxication
よyo · kun'yomi
- 酔っ払うよっぱらうto get drunk
- 酔っ払いよっぱらい
Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Phono-semantic compound (形聲)酉 alcoholic drink (meaning) + 卒 (sound)
Source: Wiktionary, 醉 (rev. 92638585), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Wine vessel (酉) + graduate/end (卒). To reach the very "end" of the "wine vessel"—leading to the state of being blissfully happy or "drunk."”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
Easy to confuse
The difference, side by side酔 drunk · 卆
vs配 distribute · 己In ChineseA Japanese form · Chinese writes 醉 · zuì
酔 is a Japanese simplification. Chinese writes 醉 in both simplified and traditional script.
- Simplified
- 醉 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 醉 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin zuì most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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