陶醉
táo zuì · HSK 7
to revel in
🍶 陶 pottery + 醉 drunk = pleasantly drunk, lost in delight
醉 holds 酉, the wine-jar radical, so the word literally means drink-drunk. Stretched from real intoxication to being giddy with joy or enchanted by music, beauty, or praise.
醉 — wine vessel 酉 + complete 卒
A semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 酉 depicts a wine jar and gives the meaning 'alcohol,' while 卒 ('to finish, to end') hints at the sound and suggests drinking to completion. Together they convey being thoroughly drunk, and by extension 'intoxicated' or 'enthralled.'