酒鬼
jiǔ guǐ · HSK 5
drunkard
🍶👻 酒鬼 = alcohol + ghost; a 'booze ghost' is a drunkard
酒 means alcohol/wine and 鬼 literally means ghost or demon, but in compounds it labels someone obsessed or addicted. So 酒鬼 is a 'wine demon' — Chinese shorthand for a habitual drunkard.
酒 — water 氵 + 酉 (wine vessel)
酒 combines 氵 (water) with 酉, an ancient pictograph of a wine jar with a narrow neck. 酉 alone originally meant fermented liquor, but as it was borrowed for the tenth earthly branch, the water radical was added to keep the 'alcoholic drink' meaning clear.
鬼 — head 田 + legs 儿 + 厶
鬼 is a pictograph of a figure with a large, eerie head (田-shape) atop human legs (儿), with 厶 suggesting a swirling or sinister element. It originally depicted a masked spirit or the soul of the dead. The meaning broadened to 'ghost, demon,' and figuratively 'sneaky' or 'clever.'