(jiǔ)

alcohol; wine; liquor

How 酒 is written

Strokes
10
Radical
— water
Traditional
Simplified
(unchanged)

Components

  • water
  • wine/alcohol

Common words using 酒

下酒 xiàjiǔ
to be appropriate to have with alcohol; to down one's drink
酒吧 jiǔbā
bar; pub; saloon
酒店 jiǔdiàn
wine shop; pub (public house); hotel
啤酒 píjiǔ
beer; CL:杯[bei1],瓶[ping2],罐[guan4],桶[tong3],缸[gang1]
喜酒 xǐjiǔ
wedding feast; liquor drunk at a wedding feast
喝酒 hējiǔ
to drink (alcohol)
戒酒 jièjiǔ
teetotal; to give up drinking; a ban on alcohol
敬酒 jìngjiǔ
to toast; to propose a toast
料酒 liàojiǔ
cooking wine
煙酒 yānjiǔ
tobacco and alcohol
白酒 báijiǔ
spirit usually distilled from sorghum or maize; white spirit
葡萄酒 pútaojiǔ
(grape) wine

酒 in a sentence

喝酒不開車。

Hējiǔ bù kāichē.

“Don't drink and drive.”

How common is 酒?

酒 is the 795th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 85.2% of all running text.

Characters that appear with 酒

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