啤酒
píjiǔ
beer
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 我喝啤酒。I drink beer.
- 一瓶啤酒。A bottle of beer.
Collocations
一瓶啤酒喝啤酒冰啤酒
Mnemonic
啤酒 píjiǔ "beer" — 啤 (transliteration of "beer", with 口 mouth radical for loanwords) + 酒 (alcohol). Measure: 瓶 píng. Japanese ビール bīru (Dutch loan), Korean "maekju" (麥酒, "barley alcohol") — different routes.
Quick check
Radical of 啤?