醉

See also 酔

Translingual

Han character

醉 (radical 164 酉+8, 15 strokes, cangjie input 一田卜人十 (MWYOJ), four-corner 1064₈)

1. intoxicated, drunk
2. addicted to

Descendants

• 酔

References

• KangXi: page 1284, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39906
• Dae Jaweon: page 1784, character 17
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3587, character 14
• Unihan data for U+9189

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Cantonese

Hanzi

醉 (Yale jeui3)

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Japanese

Kanji

醉

Readings

• On: すい (sui)
• Kun: よう (you)

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Korean

Hanja

醉 (hangeul 취, revised chwi, McCune-Reischauer ch'wi, Yale chwi)

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Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
醉

Etymology

• 酉 yǒu ("wine") + 卒 zú (phonetic element), related to 啐 cuì ("to taste, to drink")

Hanzi

醉 (pinyin zuì (zui4), Wade-Giles tsui⁴)

Adjective

醉 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin zuì)

1. drunk; intoxicated
2. addicted to

   醉心 (zuìxīn)

3. marinated in wine

   醉虾 (zuìxiā)

References

• (Can we date this quote?) Wenlin 3.0 (in Mandarin/English):

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Vietnamese

Han character

醉 (túy, tuý, tuý, xuý)