酗

Translingual

Han character

酗 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+4, 11 strokes, cangjie input 一田山大 (MWUK), four-corner 1267₀, composition ⿰酉凶)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1281, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39794
• Dae Jaweon: page 1781, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3576, character 9
• Unihan data for U+9157

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Chinese

trad.		酗
simp. #		酗
alternative forms		䣱 䣴 𨠮 𨠯

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (凶) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
酗	*qʰos
凶	*qʰoŋ
匈	*qʰoŋ
兇	*qʰoŋ, *qʰoŋʔ
訩	*qʰoŋ
胸	*qʰoŋ
胷	*qʰoŋ
洶	*qʰoŋ, *qʰoŋʔ
恟	*qʰoŋ
詾	*qʰoŋ, *qʰoŋʔ

Written as 䣱 in Shuowen. Compare 醺 (OC *qʰun).

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰos) : semantic 酉 (“alcohol”) + phonetic 凶 (OC *qʰoŋ, “bad”).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 酗

1. to be given to heavy drinking
2. to be roaring drunk; to become violent under the influence of alcohol

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Japanese

Kanji

酗

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. drunk
2. to become violent under the influence of alcohol

Readings

• On (unclassified): く (ku)

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Korean

Hanja

酗 • (hu) (hangeul 후, revised hu, McCune–Reischauer hu, Yale hwu)

1. drunk
2. to become violent under the influence of alcohol

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Vietnamese

Han character

酗 (hú, húng)

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