HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Body

酒 jiǔ “alcohol” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 酒 means

  1. alcohol
  2. wine
  3. wine (esp. rice wine)
  4. liquor
  5. spirits
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • alcoholic beverage

Measure word 杯 bēi or 瓶 píng · 一杯酒 yì bēi jiǔ

How to say 酒

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale酒jiǔ3rd tone, dipping

酒 in a sentence

  1. 你喝酒吗？

    Nǐ hē jiǔ ma?

    Do you drink?

    Sentence #411612 from Tatoeba

  2. 我不喜欢喝酒。

    Wǒ bù xǐhuan hē jiǔ.

    I don’t like drinking.

    Sentence #4673802 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我的父亲不抽烟也不喝酒。

    Wǒ de fùqīn bù chōuyān yě bù hē jiǔ.

    My father neither smokes nor drinks.

    Sentence #3344456 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 酒 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 酒 (jiǔ) with each of its parts in a different colour
酒jiǔwine
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐ
  • 酉wine vessel · yǒu

Memory aidLiquid 氵 beside a wine jar 酉: alcohol.

How to write 酒

酒 10 strokes

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酒 (jiǔ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 酒 (jiǔ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 酒

Words with 酒

酒店jiǔdiàn · hotel啤酒píjiǔ · beer酒吧jiǔbā · bar酗酒xùjiǔ · to drink heavily酒精jiǔjīng · alcohol

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FAQs

酒 (jiǔ) means “alcohol” or “wine”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it jiǔ: jiǔ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 酒 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 杯 (bēi) or 瓶 (píng). For example, one alcohol is 一杯酒 (yì bēi jiǔ).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type jiu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 酒 from the suggestions. Typing jiu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
酒 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 3 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.