醉 drunk, nauseated, dizzy, dazed, intoxicated, threat, risk 酉,卒,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

スイ
SU　I

Kun-yomi

よ(う　･　よ(い
yo　u　･　yo　i

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
　

卒

ソツ,シュツ,そっ,お,ついに,にわか lowest rank, a pawn, come to the end, die, to finish

　PALMING HEAD UNDER CONTROL, HEAD COVERED and FOLLOWING SUBMISSIVELY in ROTATION, SCREWING
…or: PALMING HEAD, UNDER CONTROL, COVERED and PASSING THROUGH A GAP with the NEEDLE
　

Meanings of elements

COCK, COCKY, WINE IN JAR and RECENT GRADUATE, A PAWN, COME TO THE END, DIE, TO FINISH, FOOT SOLDIER
…or: ALCOHOL with PALMS DOWN SEEING DOUBLE and SPINNING
…or: WINE for WOUNDED SOLDIER
…or: ALCOHOL and PALMING, HEAD of PEOPLE SCREWED

A「cock spurting and spinning, coming to the end」that wishes to copulate:「The completed mating in chickens is the culmination of a sequence of behaviours. The rooster will initiate mating by exhibiting courtship behaviour: dropping one wing and dancing in a circle (the lowered wing will be on the inside of the circle dance). The hen will crouch (dip her head and body) to indicate receptiveness to the male. The rooster will then mount the hen and grab her comb, neck feathers, or the skin on the back of her head or neck to help hold onto the hen's back.」
[ https://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/natural-mating-and-breeding 2023-05-17 ]
Clearly, that squeezing grip on the back of the head and neck, and those unbalanced spinning motions going down into the dirt like an airplane crashing just before you get totally fucked, describe BEING DRUNK, DIZZY or DAZED, and the THREAT, RISK of crashing as well as cock copulation. While soldiers may become drunk, so might anyone else, and soldiers (or, most likely,「sailors」in this case) are not special in this regard. Nevertheless, the modern elements of「booze」and「soldier, low-ranking person」mean DRUNKENNESS, or「alcohol with palm down holding on, seeing double, and spinning」that would clearly mean INEBRIATED. Right element here can mean「end, die」perhaps finishing off (「killing」) the whole bottle of booze. Also「threat, risk」as alcohol was often used as an anesthesia (on the battlefield, too) and carried a high risk of death from overdose, not to mention the problems actually associated with drunken soldiers and sailors.

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: intoxicated
Japanese EDRDG: become drunk, feel sick, poisoned, elated, spellbound
Unihan extended: intoxicated, drunk; addicted to

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.