HSK 3 · Food

啤酒 píjiǔ “beer” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 啤酒 means

  1. beer

Measure word 杯 bēi or 瓶 píng · 一杯啤酒 yì bēi píjiǔ

How to say 啤酒

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale啤pí2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale酒jiǔ3rd tone, dipping

啤酒 in a sentence

  1. 一瓶啤酒多少钱？

    Yì píng píjiǔ duōshǎo qián?

    How much is a bottle of beer?

    Sentence #774305 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 啤酒我不太喜欢。

    Píjiǔ wǒ bú tài xǐhuan.

    I don’t really like beer.

    Sentence #1245268 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 您有日本啤酒吗？

    Nín yǒu Rìběn píjiǔ ma?

    Do you have any Japanese beer?

    Sentence #349655 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 啤酒 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 啤 (pí) with each of its parts in a different colour
啤píbeer
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part
  • 卑humble · bēiSound part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 卑 (bēi) hints at the sound. Compare it with pí.

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 啤酒

啤 11 strokes · 酒 10 strokes

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

Words related to 啤酒

Words with 酒

酒店jiǔdiàn · hotel酒jiǔ · alcohol酒吧jiǔbā · bar酗酒xùjiǔ · to drink heavily酒精jiǔjīng · alcohol

More words: Food & Drink

蛋糕dàngāo · cake饿è · hungry渴kě · thirsty面包miànbāo · bread甜tián · sweet香蕉xiāngjiāo · banana饮料yǐnliào · beverage鸡jī · chicken

FAQs

啤酒 (píjiǔ) means “beer”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it píjiǔ: pí with a 2nd tone, then jiǔ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 啤酒 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Use 杯 (bēi) or 瓶 (píng). For example, one beer is 一杯啤酒 (yì bēi píjiǔ).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pijiu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 啤酒 from the suggestions. Typing pijiu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
啤酒 is an HSK 3 word in the 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.