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醉

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

drunk

HSK 5

Human →Actions →Change

zuì

スイ

よ.う、よ.い

취

Phonosemantic compound. 酉 represents the meaning and 卒 represents the sound.

Components

酉 vessel+ 卒 foot soldier =

醉 drunk

酉 Meaning component

yǒu vessel

10th terrestrial branch

卒 Phonetic component

zú foot soldier

variant of 卒[zú]

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

醉

Regular

Modern

Chinese

醉 [zuì]

intoxicated

Example Sentences

CHINESE WORDS (84)

麻醉 [mázuì] #5,309

陶醉 [táozuì] #11,711

to be infatuated with

沉醉 [chénzuì] #13,125

to become intoxicated

喝醉 [hēzuì] #15,809

麻醉剂 [mázuìjì] #9,301

麻醉剂 [mázuìjì] #9,301

醉鬼 [zuìguǐ] #9,863

灌醉 [guànzuì] #11,300

醉醺醺 [zuìxūnxūn] #10,544

麻醉药 [mázuìyào] #13,202

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KOREAN WORDS (4)

fascination; infatuation