You Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Wine (yǒu)
Kangxi Strokes: 15
Page 1284, Entry 24
Pronounced zui (falling tone).
Standard rhymes note that one who is intoxicated by alcohol is called drunk.
Book of Documents (Shangshu), Chapter on Alcohol Ordinances (Jiugao): Hold oneself with virtue so as not to reach the point of drunkenness.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): Already intoxicated by wine.
Also refers to being mentally intoxicated.
Zhuangzi, Responses for Emperors and Kings: When Liezi saw this, his heart was mesmerized by it.
Zhongshuo (Wenzhongzi), Chapter on Serving the Sovereign: Mentally intoxicated by the Six Classics.
There is also the term bone-intoxication (guzui).
History of the Tang (Tangshu), Annals of Empress Wu: Emperor Gaozong's Empress Wang and Consort Xiao were falsely accused by Consort Wu and imprisoned. Wu placed the two women into a brewing vat, calling it allowing the two concubines to be bone-intoxicated.
Also refers to a state of complete mental harmony.
Huainanzi, Summary of Obscure Teachings (Lanmingxun): Those who reach the state of great harmony are muddled as if purely intoxicated, sleeping peacefully within it, not knowing its source.
Also, in Dictionary Supplement (Zihuibu), Zui Li is a place name. It is the same as Zhui Li.
Gongyang Commentary (Gongyangzhuan), 14th Year of Duke Ding: The State of Yue defeated the State of Wu at Zui Li.
Also, in Dictionary Supplement (Zihuibu), pronounced cui (level tone).
Li Shize, Rhyme Chart (Yuntu): The character for drunk has both a level tone and a departing tone pronunciation.
Analytical Dictionary of Characters (Shuowen): Zui means to finish. It implies making someone drink until they reach their own limit without becoming disordered. Another theory suggests it means to collapse or disperse.
Correct Meaning of Characters (Zhengyitong): Drunkenness must inevitably ruin one's virtue and lead to the loss of propriety. The Alcohol Ordinances (Jiugao) and Banquet Mats (Binyan) discuss this in great detail; there is no such thing as being drunk while remaining within limits and not becoming disordered. Establishing the meaning based on the word finish (zu) as in the Analytical Dictionary of Characters (Shuowen) is a mistake.
