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醉

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, composition ⿰酉卒)

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 醉

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (卒) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
晬 *ʔsuːds
祽 *ʔsuːds
綷 *ʔsuːds
淬 *sʰuːds
啐 *sʰuːds, *suːds, *sʰroːds, *ʔsud
倅 *sʰuːds, *ʔsuːd
焠 *sʰuːds
碎 *suːds
誶 *suːds, *suds, *zud
濢 *ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds
噿 *ʔslulʔ
臎 *ʔslulʔ, *sʰluds
醉 *ʔsuds
翠 *sʰuds
悴 *zuds
萃 *zuds
瘁 *zuds
顇 *zuds
粹 *suds
睟 *suds
賥 *suds
卒 *ʔsuːd, *sʰuːd, *ʔsud
稡 *ʔsuːd
猝 *sʰuːd
椊 *zuːd
捽 *zuːd, *zud
崪 *zuːd
窣 *suːd
崒 *zud
踤 *zud
錊 *ʔsuːɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *ʔsuds) : semantic 酉 ‎(“wine”) + phonetic 卒 ‎(OC *ʔsuːd, *sʰuːd, *ʔsud), related to 啐 ‎(“to taste, to drink”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 醉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 精 (13)
Final (韻) 脂 (16)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 將遂切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /t͡siuɪH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /t͡sʷiH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /t͡sjuɪH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /t͡swiH/
Li
Rong		 /t͡suiH/
Wang
Li		 /t͡swiH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /t͡swiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 zuì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 醉
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 zuì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tswijH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*Cə.tsu[t]-s/
English drunk (adj.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 醉
Reading # 1/1
No. 17943
Phonetic
component		 卒
Rime
group		 隊
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 醉
Old
Chinese		 /*ʔsuds/

Adjective

醉

  1. drunk; intoxicated
  2. addicted to
    醉心 (zuìxīn)
  3. marinated in wine
    醉蝦／醉虾 (zuìxiā)

References

Japanese

Kanji

醉

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

醉 (túy, tuý, tuý, xuý)

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