Kanji Detail for 醒 - "to sober up, to awaken, to become enlightened"

醒

Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
醒 means "to sober up, to awaken, to become enlightened."
1. To sober up - To become clear-headed after intoxication.
2. To awaken - To wake up; to rouse from sleep.
3. To become enlightened - The clearing of mental confusion; to achieve awareness.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

awake; be disillusioned; sober up

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

wake up; sober up; startle

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

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

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to wake up, to startle; to sober up

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

To recover from intoxication. Also, waking from a dream is called 醒. | All matters and principles that go from confusion to understanding are called 醒. As in 醒悟 (realize), 提醒 (remind).
Onyomi

sei(セイ)
Kunyomi

sa.masu(さ-ます)

sa.meru(さ-める)
Strokes

16 strokes
Radical

酉 (hiyominotori・torihen・sakenotori・koyominotori)
Related Keywords
to sober up to awaken to become enlightened clear confusion alert attentive aware conscious lucid perceptive revived rouse sharp wake up responsive