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

Everything's spinning now, you're so drunk it feels like you're on a swing (すい). Lurching back and forth in your drunkenness, feeling more and more nauseated by all this horrible swinging. Ugh.

Hints

Imagine that vertigo that comes over you if you lean your head back when you're drunk. It feels like leaning back on a playground swing, in a way. Oh, wait… what if we got drunk and swung on the playground swings? Double swing effect! Actually, never mind. Bad idea.