酔 means “get drunk, feel sick”

よう · you

Also: drunk, poisoned, elated

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

よう, よい, よ

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

スイ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 11 strokes

The story

A sake jar (酉) beside nine (九) over ten (十): picture cups counted past nine, past ten, and still pouring. 酔う is to get drunk, or to feel sick from motion: 二日酔い is a hangover, 車酔い carsickness, and 酔っ払い is a drunk.

Used in 酔う (you, to get drunk), 二日酔い (futsukayoi, hangover), and 酔っ払い (yopparai, drunk person)

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.