酣醉 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

hānzuì

dead drunk

hān, hàn enjoy intoxicants

Phonosemantic compound. 酉 represents the meaning and 甘 represents the sound.

Components

酉 Meaning component

yǒu wine

甘 Sound component

gān sweetness

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ham	[ɡ]ˤam	half-drunk
Zhengzhang		ɢaːm
Unicode	hɑm

說文解字

酒樂也。从酉从甘，甘亦聲。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

zuì intoxicated

Phonosemantic compound. 酉 represents the meaning and 卒 represents the sound.

Components

酉 Meaning component

yǒu wine

卒 Sound component

zú, cù, cuì soldier, to finish

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	tswijH	Cə.tsu[t]-s	drunk (adj.)
Zhengzhang		ʔsuds
Unicode	tzuì

說文解字

卒也。卒其度量，不至於亂也。一曰潰也。从酉从卒。

Sources

Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)