xūn

get drunk

Components

Meaning component
yǒu wine

wine

Sound component
xūn smoke

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld Chinese
Zhengzhangqʰun
Unicodexiuən

說文解字

醉也。从酉熏聲。《詩》曰:“公尸來燕醺醺。”

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica