(jiǔ) - alcohol, wine, liquor in Mandarin
jiǔTraditional: 酒
Translation
alcohol, wine, liquor
Word origin
酒 means alcohol, wine or liquor. It is a phono-semantic compound combining the 氵 'water' radical, for the liquid, with 酉 (yǒu), a pictograph of a wine jar that also gives the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 氵 (water radical) + 酉 (yǒu, wine jar, phonetic and semantic)
Stroke order
酒
Examples
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He likes to drink alcohol.
瓶。
This bottle of wine is very expensive.
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China has many kinds of liquor.
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He does not like drinking alcohol.
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There is a lot of wine at the wedding.
酒 (jiǔ) means alcohol, wine, liquor. It is used as a noun in everyday Mandarin speech.
Where this fits
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 酒.
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