醒 sober, awaken, come to one's senses, to dawn upon 酉,星,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

セイ
SE　I

Kun-yomi

さ(ます　･　さ(める
sa　ma　su　･　sa　me　ru

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

酉

ユウ,とり cock, cocky, wine in jar, wine jar, bird

　TIPSY UNSTABLE STANCE on ORIFICE in LATERAL MOTION
…or: ONE COPULATING with ONE IN WINE JAR
…or: BALD ARRAY of ORIFICES
…or: ONE COPULATING with ROD SEGMENT, INDICATES WIDTH OR EXTENT in ORIFICE
　

星

セイ,ショウ,ほし,～ぼし star, small amount, a body that revolves around a much larger mass, bright flashing sensations from a blow to the head

　TONGUING MOUTH with HEAD OF PRICK
　

Meanings of elements

COCK with TONGUING MOUTH on HEAD OF PRICK
…or: COCK, WINE, BIRD and STAR
…or: WINE JAR with RAW TONGUE IN MOUTH
…or: COCK with STAR, SMALL BODY THAT REVOLVES AROUND A MUCH LARGER MASS, BRIGHT FLASHING SENSATIONS FROM A BLOW TO THE HEAD

A「wine jar」with「stars」or「tongue in mouth raw, (but) alive」as perhaps a bit startled by seeing both your「cock and stars」and realizing that you are not yet dead in heaven, to mean SOBER, AWAKE, LUCID, COME TO ONE'S SENSES, REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS and seeing the stars in the sky overhead.
「Cock with tonguing mouth on head of prick, live and raw」will normally cause most males to AWAKEN, become LUCID, COME TO ONE'S SENSES, REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS from a deep sleep, cease their dreaming, and is a theme often seen in this and other glyphs referring to the TIME OF AWAKENING each day, the DAWN or DAWNING, RISING AND SHINING (i.e., flashing a bit).
Some have suggested「cock and stars」as the early crowing of a rooster at dawn, although roosters actually crow at any time during daylight hours, but not normally while stars are visible in the night sky since the birds are asleep. Rooster cocks begin crowing at dawn, timed by the animal's circadian rhythm. Nevertheless, cock tonguing like a superstar is a sure-fire way to wake up a male and get him to start crowing and then out the door in order to bring home more bacon during the daily hunt.
Note to flat-earthers: is does appear that tiny stars rotate around the larger mass of the Earth, but nonetheless this appearance is deceiving to some simple-minded folk—actually, the Earth itself is rotating, and the many stars in the sky, including our own Sun, remain relatively stationary from day to day, and the Earth only seems larger than galaxies because the ground is closer to you: it is time to COME TO ONE'S SENSES.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: to wake up; to be awake; to become aware; to sober up; to come to
Japanese EDRDG: awake, be disillusioned, sober up
Unihan extended: wake up; sober up; startle

Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that), representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created. If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system! Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today. Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?

No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else. This site describes glyph meanings, not people. These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect. The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language? (More...) Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or could they have been worse?

By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs, you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon. This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.