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

醒

  • Meaning

    醒 means "to sober up, to awaken." Also associated with 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.

  • Words using 醒

    • 覚醒剤 かくせいざい Listen stimulant (e.g. psychoactive drugs like methamphetamine, ritalin, etc.)
    • 覚醒 かくせい Listen waking up; awakening; arousal

  • Four-character idioms with 醒

    • 半睡半醒 はんすいはんせい Listen half asleep and half awake
    • 半醒半睡 はんせいはんすい Listen half awake and half asleep

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    • Verified meaning: to sober up, to awaken
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read すみお, すみとも)
    • Also carries these associations: to become enlightened

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 醒

    Surnames 醒(すみお)Listen 醒(すみとも)Listen

  • 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

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    sei(セイ) セイ

  • Kunyomi

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    sa.masu(さ-ます) さ-ます

    sa.meru(さ-める) さ-める

  • Strokes

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    16 strokes

  • Radical

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    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

Sentences including 醒

  • It's quite possible that there are times I am half awake, and thus the day feels shorter.

  • When people are being put into a hypnotic state for the first time I often, after placing them in a very light hypnotic state, wake them and ask them to compare their wakening state to that when hypnotised.

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