Character Details
| beer | Ascii: — | w659 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 啤酒 | píjiǔ | pee-jeeow | 2+3 | 啊 (口 mouth + 阿 mound) + 呀 (口 mouth + 牙 tooth) | 啤酒 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - 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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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; noun | 啤 (口 mouth + 卑 low) + 酒 (氵 water radical + 酉 wine) | ||||||||||
| A mouth‑sound (啤) plus wine (酒) — beer. | |||||||||||