HSK 5 · Body

醉 zuì “drunk” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 醉 means

  1. drunk
  2. to get drunk
  3. intoxicated

How to say 醉

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale醉zuì4th tone, falling

醉 in a sentence

  1. 他喝醉了，是朋友把他送回家的。

    Tā hē zuì le, shì péngyou bǎ tā sòng huíjiā de.

    He got drunk, and his friends took him home.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 我只喝了一杯就醉了。

    Wǒ zhǐ hē le yì bēi jiù zuì le.

    I only had one glass and I was drunk.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 醉 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 醉 (zuì) with each of its parts in a different colour
醉zuìintoxicated
  • 酉wine vessel · yǒuMeaning part
  • 卒soldier · zúSound part

酉 hints at the meaning (wine vessel); 卒 (zú) hints at the sound. Compare it with zuì.

How to write 醉

醉 15 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

醉 (zuì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 醉 (zuì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 醉

Words with 醉

麻醉mázuì · anaesthesia陶醉táozuì · to be intoxicated (by)

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FAQs

醉 (zuì) means “drunk” or “to get drunk”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it zuì: zuì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 醉 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 醉 from the suggestions. Typing zui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
醉 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.