mǐng
bound morpheme #15,215

Meanings

  1. 1 used in 酩酊 (mǐngdǐng, 'blind drunk')

Examples

Tā hē de mǐngdǐng-dàzuì.
He drank until he was dead drunk.
Zuówǎn tā mǐngdǐng-dàzuì, shénme dōu bú jìde le.
Last night he was plastered and doesn't remember anything.

Tips

usage
only appears in the compound 酩酊 (blind drunk). The full expression 酩酊大醉 is the common idiom meaning 'dead drunk; completely plastered.'

Components

radical
yǒu
wine vessel; tenth earthly branch
Wine-jar radical on the left, the indexing radical. pictures an ancient sealed wine pot and signals fermented liquor. appears almost exclusively in 酩酊 dead drunk, so the radical's role is transparent - same family includes alcohol, drunk, sober.
phonetic
míng
name
Right side supplies the sound - míng shifting to mǐng with a tone change. Same phonetic appears in to engrave, fine tea, corn borer, dusk. Pure phonetic role; only ever appears bound in 酩酊, where meaning rides on the wine radical.

Stroke Order

mǐng