Chinese character 酕

酕 means “very drunk,” usually as part of 酕醄.

The usual form is the literary Chinese compound 酕醄, pronounced in Mandarin with two rising tones (pinyin: máo táo). Sent alone, 酕 may look like a fragment; the compound makes the intoxication meaning clearer.

The earliest dictionary trail is in the Northern Song rhyme dictionaries Guangyun and Jiyun; the earlier Shuowen Jiezi does not list 酕. Later verse preserves the same sense, and a Qing calligraphy work dated 1704 also records 酕醄. In the character's construction, 酉 supplies the wine association and 毛 contributes the sound.