Character Details
| liquor | Ascii: 36194 | w524 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 酒 | jiǔ | djeeow | 3 | 氵 (water) + 酉 (wine vessel) → alcohol | 酒 link | ||||||
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Liquor, like whiskey, is a watered down form of pure alcohol. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - With the example sentence, if you want to be more polite, you could say 我想要一瓶啤酒 (Wǒ xiǎng yào yì píng píjiǔ), meaning "I would like a bottle of beer" | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I would like to drink beer | - --Research Pending-- | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| — - 氏 | shì | water | clan | clan mark | 氏 民 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 氵 (water) + 酉 (wine vessel) → alcohol | 氵 (semantic: liquid) | 酉 (phonetic) | phonetic from 酉 | ||||||||