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酒 |
alcohol, wine, liquor
Left: water/liquid 氵, right: wine jar 酉 The liquid in the wine jar is alcohol. |
醒 |
to wake up (after drinking), to sober up
Left: wine mug 酉, right: star 星 (Suns 日 that live 生 are the stars. [due to their movements in the night sky]) After the mug of wine you are under the stars, where you wake up and need to sober up. |
尊 |
honorific, to honor, to respect
From top: out of 丷, wine mug 酉, skillful hand 寸 When sth. comes out of a wine mug by a skillful hand, it's seen to be: honorific. |
酸 |
sour, acid
Left: wine jar 酉, right: nose 厶, legs 儿, upturned foot 夂) Wine that smells like nose, legs and feet is sour. |
配 |
to join, fit, mate, mix, complete
Left: wine mug 酉, right: self 己 (Following the windings, I find myself.) The mug of wine itself fits and must join. |
遵 |
to obey, comply with, to observe, to follow
Left: movement 辶, right: honourific 尊 (When sth. comes out 丷 of a wine mug 酉 by a skillful hand 寸, it's seen to be: honorific.) A honorific movement is obedient. |
醉 |
to be drunk, intoxicated
Left: alcohol 酉, right: soldier, suddenly 卒 (between rotary discs 亠,十 are soldiers 人 who die suddenly.) The alcohol lets you 从 be as if between two rotary disks, when you are drunk. |
蹲 |
to crouch, to squat
Left: foot 足 (knee cap 口 and footprint 止), right: honorific 尊 (When sth. comes out 丷 of a wine mug 酉 by a skillful hand 寸, it's seen to be: honorific.) (Making a kowtow?) With your feet you are honorific, if you crouch. |
醋 |
vinegar, jealousy (in love rivalry)
Left: alcohol 酉, right: former times 昔 (Together 共 in the sun 日 we think of former times) It was alcohol in former times, now it's changed to vinegar. |
酱 |
sauce, paste (of fermented soya bean), jam
Top: bed 丬 (here: fragment cf:爿,片) and evening 夕, bottom: alcohol 酉 (image of a bottle) (The leftovers from the party are fermented) Put the fragments (=leftovers ) from the evening into an alcohol bottle and you will get a sauce. |
酷 |
ruthless, cruel, harsh, strong (e.g. of wine)
Left: wine mug 酉, right: announce 告 (cow 牛 opens mouth 口) After the mug of wine was his announcement: harsh and ruthless. |
酬 |
to reward, to repay, to return, compensate
Left: wine mug 酉, right: prefecture 州 (Sandbanks 丶 in the river 川 separate the prefectures.) One mug of wine is for the prefecture as a reward. |
奠 |
to settle, to lay foundation, to fix, pay respect
Top: tribal chief 酋 (Who distributes out of 丷 the wine jug 酉, is the tribal chief.), bottom: big 大 A tribal chief is doing big, when settling a foundation. |
酿 |
to ferment, to brew, form gradually
Left: alcohol 酉, right: good 良 The alcohol is good, because it is ferment. |
酌 |
to pour wine & drink wine, to deliberate, to consider
Left: wine mug 酉, right: sháo 勺 (18 ml: image of a ladle 勹 with sth. in 丶) Wine in portions of one sháo was poured in and drank. |
酝 |
to brew
Left: alcohol 酉, right: cloud 云 When alcohol makes clouds, then during the brewing. |
酗 |
drunk
Left: alcohol 酉, right: fearful 凶 (The mark 㐅 on the container 凵 shows that its content is vicious and fearful) The alcohol is fearful, because it makes you drunk. |
酶 |
enzyme, ferment
Left: alcohol 酉, right: every 每 (every person 人 =  has a mother 母) For (the production [or degradation]) of alcohol, you/everybody need an enzyme. |
醇 |
alcohol, wine with high alcohol content, pure
Left: wine jar, alcohol 酉, right: enjoy 享 (The tall 高 child 子 is enjoying) The alcohol for enjoying: Alcohol! |
酋 |
tribal chief
Top: out of 丷, bottom: wine jug 酉 Who distributes out of the wine jug, is the tribal chief. |
酥 |
flaky pastry, crunchy, limp, soft, silky
Left: wine jar 酉, right: rice plant 禾 Some alcohol to the rice and you get a flaky pastry. |
酵 |
yeast, leavening, fermentation
Left: wine jar 酉, right: filial obedience 孝 (... An old man 耂 with a stick/cane ノ teaches them to a child 子) In a wine jar it is set with filial obedience yeast for fermenting. |
酣 |
drunk, intoxicated
Left: alcohol 酉, right: sweet 甘 (image of an open mouth 廿 with something sweet 一 between teeth) (You don't taste the its percentage in sweet cocktails) Alcohol that is sweet, makes you drunk. |
酪 |
curdled milk, cheese
Left: wine mug 酉, right: every, each 各 (Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody) The wine mugs: Each caused curdled milk. |
酉 |
wine mug, alcohol, (astrol:) rooster
Image of a wine mug. |
酮 |
ketone (chemistry)
Left: wine jar/alcohol 酉, right: the same 同 (All container 冂 have only one 一 opening 口 and it is the same.) (They are obtained by oxidation of alcohol) The alcohol can be the same when it becomes ketones. |
蘸 |
to dip in (ink, sauce etc)
Top: plant 艹, bottom: 醮 (alcohol 酉, scorched, burnt, charred 焦) A plant with alcohol will burn, even if you (only have briefly): dipped it into it. |
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