Meaning & readings
drunk, feel sick, poisoned, elated, spellbound
Origin
This character combines the radical 酉, which represents alcohol or fermented drinks, with 卆 on the right side, which provides a sound hint for how the character is pronounced. The meaning of "drunk" comes directly from the alcohol radical—when you consume alcohol, you become intoxicated. The other meanings like "feel sick" or "elated" extend naturally from the state of drunkenness. The right component doesn't contribute to the meaning itself, but rather tells readers roughly how to pronounce the character in Chinese and Japanese.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 酉
- 卆
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 11
- Kangxi radical
- 164
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1640 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+09154