啤酒
píjiǔTraditional: 啤酒
#1273 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
beer
Word origin
A compound in which 啤 (pí) was coined to render the sound of the English beer, joined to 酒 (jiǔ, alcoholic drink). The mouth radical in 啤 marks it as a sound-based loan.
- Origin
- phonetic loan plus semantic
- Root
- 啤 (pí, phonetic for beer) + 酒 (jiǔ, alcohol)
Stroke order
啤
酒
Examples
。
Let us have some beer.
。
This brand of beer is very famous.
瓶。
He ordered two bottles of beer.
冰。
Drinking cold beer in summer is the most pleasant.
。
Do not drink too much beer.
啤酒 (pí jiǔ) means beer. The 啤 was created specifically to transcribe the foreign word.
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