酒不醉人人自醉，色不迷人人自迷

• 氵(water; liquid)RADICAL
• 酉(wine vessel (pictographic))PHONO-SEMANTIC

Alcohol is a liquid stored in a vessel and fermented from grain.

• 不(no; not; negation)ASSOCIATIVE

A bird flying swiftly upward and never willing to return represents the meaning of swift and unyielding.

• 酉(bottle; wine vessel)RADICAL
• 卒(soldier; finished)PHONETIC

Drinking alcohol until you're "done" makes you soft and drunk.

• 人(person; human (pictographic))ASSOCIATIVE

The character 人 depicts a person standing with legs spread wide apart for stability.

• 自(nose (pictographic) → self; body)ASSOCIATIVE

Ancient people pointed to their nose when saying "I," so the character for nose also means self.

• ⺈(knife; variant form)ASSOCIATIVE
• 巴(long for; cling to; stick tight)PHONO-SEMANTIC

Beauty as sharp as a keen blade makes people stick fast and unable to look away.

• 辶(step; move)RADICAL
• 米(rice)PHONETIC

A lost grain of rice scattered about doesn't know which way to follow, like being disoriented and lost.