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醒

xǐng

wake up, sober up

Phonosemantic compound. 酉 represents the meaning and 星 represents the sound.

Components
酉 meaning component

酉  Meaning component

yǒu

  

wine

星 sound component

星  Sound component

xīng

  

a star

Evolution

醒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
醒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

醒  

xǐng

wake up; sober up; startle; to wake up; to be awake; to become aware; to sober up; to come to

Most common words with 醒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

醒

to wake up

提醒

to remind

清醒

sober

醒来

to waken

叫醒

to awaken

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*s-tsʰˤeŋʔ

sengX

xǐng

wake up


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 64.1358% of movies

595th most common character in movies

1075th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+9192

Shuowen

《說文新附》：“醒，醉解也。从酉，星聲。”


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