酒 — Chinese character
酒
jiǔ
wine, spirits, liquor, alcohol
- Pinyin
- jiǔ
- Radical
- 164 ⾣ (Wine)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 氵 酉
- Formation
- ideographic — A jar 酉 of wine 氵; 酉 also provides the pronunciation
- Japanese
- 酒 as a kanji
Common words with 酒
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 酒店 | jiǔ diàn | wine shop; pub (public house) |
| 酒吧 | jiǔ bā | bar (place to buy drinks); measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 喝酒 | hē jiǔ | to drink (alcohol) |
| 啤酒 | pí jiǔ | beer (loanword); measure word: 杯 (bēi), 瓶 (píng), 罐 (guàn), 桶 (tǒng), 缸 (gāng) |
| 酒精 | jiǔ jīng | (coll.) ethanol; ethyl alcohol |
| 葡萄酒 | pú tao jiǔ | (grape) wine |
| 饮酒 (飲酒) | yǐn jiǔ | to drink wine |
| 红酒 (紅酒) | hóng jiǔ | red wine |
| 酒后 (酒後) | jiǔ hòu | after drinking; under the influence of alcohol |
| 酿酒 (釀酒) | niàng jiǔ | to make a fermented drink (i.e. to brew beer, make wine etc) |
| 白酒 | bái jiǔ | baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum; (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒 (bái pú tao jiǔ)) |
| 酗酒 | xù jiǔ | heavy drinking; to get drunk |
English words written with 酒
酒 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 5 · I Ching 4 · Mencius 11 · Zhuangzi 14
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.