酔 Drunk

Radical Combination

• 酉

  Alcohol
• 九

  Nine
• 十

  Cross

Meaning

Primary

Drunk

Mnemonic

You have an alcohol nine times stronger than any other drink in a bottle shaped like a cross and you drink it all and become drunk. You’re like, so drunk right now from all that alcohol. Nine times more drunk than ever before.

Hints

Feel how drunk you are as you look at the cross shaped bottle that once held the alcohol. See the cross start to blur in front of you from how drunk you are.

Readings

On’yomi

すい

Kun’yomi

よ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

If you drink so much that you become drunk, then your alcohol will begin to taste like water. What is the reading of 水? It's すい, which is the reading for this kanji.

Hints

Speaking of 水, you need to drink some. You need to rehydrate and 水 is the best way to do it. Drink a lot of 水. Go. Now.