When “酒” fills a head
Why it is in the set
It was the one character that got argued about. Keeping it means the site occasionally tells someone their head is mostly drink, which is a joke that can land badly. It stayed because taking it out would have been a small lie about what occupies people's heads, and because the machine check already blocks any line that treats it as a failing. The generated quips talk about plans and about Friday, never about a problem.
What a head full of it looks like
Thursday, mostly. The mental arithmetic about who is free. The specific anticipation of the first one after a long week. A head led by 酒 is usually a head that is looking forward to company and has attached a drink to the idea.
Words that use it
お酒 (osake, alcohol generally), 酒屋 (sakaya, a liquor shop), 居酒屋 (izakaya, a pub), 酒場 (sakaba, a drinking place), 日本酒 (nihonshu, sake as English uses the word).
Kanji it turns up with
友 (friends) is the one that changes the reading most. 酒 alone is an evening; 酒 with 友 behind it is a plan. With 忙 (busy) behind it, the quip usually points out the contradiction.
Where “酒” comes from
Water on the left (氵), and on the right 酉, which is a picture of a narrow-necked jar used for fermenting. Liquid, and the jar it came out of.
酉 turns up in 配 (to distribute, originally to serve from the jar), 酢 (vinegar) and 酵 (fermentation), which is a tidy little family of things that happen in containers.
The reading changes in compounds: お酒 is osake, but 酒屋 is sakaya, a liquor shop. Japanese does this a lot and there is no shortcut for it.
A line you might get for “酒”
“Making plans. The plans involve a bar and very little else.”
Count the “酒” in your own headOthers in “Appetites”
“酒” is filed under “Appetites”. These are the rest of that group.
The 36 kanji
This is entirely a joke and has nothing to do with any real person.