醺

醺 U+91BA, 醺 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-91BA ← 醹 [U+91B9] CJK Unified Ideographs 醻 → [U+91BB]

Translingual

Han character

醺 (Kangxi radical 164, 酉+14, 21 strokes, cangjie input 一田竹土火 (MWHGF), four-corner 1263₁, composition ⿰酉熏)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1288, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 40070
• Dae Jaweon: page 1789, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3602, character 2
• Unihan data for U+91BA

Chinese

trad.		醺
simp. #		醺

Glyph origin

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

	Old Chinese
櫄	*tqʰun
薰	*qʰun, *qʰuns
曛	*qʰun
勲	*qʰun
熏	*qʰun
燻	*qʰun
獯	*qʰun
纁	*qʰun
醺	*qʰun
臐	*qʰun, *qʰuns
爋	*qʰuns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *qʰun) : semantic 酉 + phonetic 熏 (OC *qʰun).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): xūn (xun¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄒㄩㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹
• Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hong¹ / huong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: xūn
    • Zhuyin: ㄒㄩㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: syun
    • Wade–Giles: hsün¹
    • Yale: syūn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shiun
    • Palladius: сюнь (sjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɕyn⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fan¹
    • Yale: fān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵/
• Puxian Min
  • (Putian)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: hong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔŋ⁵³³/
  • (Xianyou)
    • Pouseng Ping'ing: huong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huoŋ⁵³³/

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• Middle Chinese: xjun

Rime
Character	醺
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	曉 (32)
Final (韻)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Closed
Division (等)	III
Fanqie	許云切
Baxter	xjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/hɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/hiun/
Shao Rongfen	/xiuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/hun/
Li Rong	/xiuən/
Wang Li	/xĭuən/
Bernard Karlgren	/xi̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	xūn
Expected Cantonese Reflex	fan1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*qʰun/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	醺
Reading #	1/1
No.	14114
Phonetic component	熏
Rime group	文
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	薰
Old Chinese	/*qʰun/

Definitions

醺

1. to be drunk; to intoxicate with alcohol

Compounds

• 微醺 (wēixūn)
• 醉醺醺 (zuìxūnxūn)
• 醺酣
• 醺醺

 

References

• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “醺”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 271.

Japanese

Kanji

醺

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. hunger

Readings

• On (unclassified): くん (kun)
• Kun: よう (yō)