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wine shop / pub (public house) / hotel / restaurant / (Tw) hostess club
HSK 2
beer (loanword) / CL: , , , ,
HSK 3
red wine
HSK 3
bar (place to buy drinks) / CL:
HSK 4
heavy drinking / to get drunk / to drink to excess
HSK 7-9
baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒)
HSK 5
drunkard
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *酒* | 酒* | *酒
wine (esp. rice wine) / liquor / spirits / alcoholic beverage / CL: , , , ,
HSK 2
wedding feast / liquor drunk at a wedding feast
HSK 7-9
rice wine
(grape) wine
HSK 5
beverage; drink
HSK 6
(loanword) champagne / CL: ,
to make a fermented drink (i.e. to brew beer, make wine etc)
dish that goes well with alcoholic drinks; snack eaten with drinks
bistro
to play house (Tw)
brewery
lit. new wine in old bottles; fig. new concepts in an old framework / (loan idiom from Matthew 9:17, but fig. meaning is opposite)
tipsy and merry (idiom)
(idiom) to drown one's sorrows
tavern / pub / wine shop
(coll.) ethanol; ethyl alcohol
HSK 7-9
to live in the moment (idiom) / to live every day as if it were one's last / to enjoy while one can
formal exchange of cups of wine between bride and groom as traditional wedding ceremony
whiskey (loanword)
to be appropriate to have with alcohol / to down one's drink
good wine / fine liquor
wine-drinking game
to warm up wine / wine served warm, generally referring to Chinese wine such as 黃酒|黄酒 or 白酒
fragrant wine fears no dark alley (idiom) / quality goods need no advertising
winery
liquor
feast; banquet
to toast; to propose a toast
HSK 7-9
sweet liquor
restaurant
HSK 7-9
to prepare a feast
to taste wine / to sip wine
rum (beverage) (loanword)
to get drunk
love hotel
lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking / debauched and corrupt environment
(calque) cocktail
strong alcoholic drink
brewer's yeast
to drink (alcohol)
to give up drinking / to abstain from drinking
tobacco and alcohol
Yanjing beer (Beijing beer brand)
draft beer / unpasteurized beer
to urge sb to drink alcohol
to force sb to drink alcohol
Budweiser beer
prohibition / ban on alcohol
Beer Festival
craft beer
beer belly
(loanword) rum
drink (on a menu)
(loanword) liqueur
to mix drinks / cocktail
(loanword) liqueur
to dismiss military hierarchy using wine cups / cf Song founding Emperor Song Taizu 宋太祖 holds a banquet in 961 and persuades his senior army commanders to go home to their provinces
Port wine
drunk driving (very high blood alcohol concentration)
to eat meat and drink wine
driving under the influence
drunken fighting / to get drunk and quarrel
to buy liquor
to drink and chat merrily (idiom)
glutinous rice wine / fermented glutinous rice
cider
drinking game chips (typically in the form of strips of bamboo inscribed with lines of poetry)
smell of alcohol / flavoring of rum or other liquor in food / aroma or nose (of wine)
absinthe (distilled anise-based liquor)
to sober up
to drink along (with sb)
to drink wine
short speech given in proposing a toast
maotai (a strong spirit produced in Guizhou) / CL: ,
wine shop / liquor store / bottle shop / bar / pub
old wine in a new bottle (idiom)
bar
after drinking / under the influence of alcohol
low-alcohol beer / non-alcoholic beer (typically, 0.5% ABV or less)
Bacchus (the Greek god of wine), aka Dionysus
lit. sing to accompany wine (idiom); fig. life is short, make merry while you can
banquet to celebrate the Spring Festival / wine made in spring and kept until winter, or made in winter and kept until spring
social occasion centered on alcohol; drinking party; drinking session
to take a breathalyzer test
love hotel
old wine in a new bottle (idiom)
prohibition / ban on alcohol / dry law
(cocktail) shaker
fond of the bottle (idiom)
distiller's grain / wine lees
not a slave to the bottle / able to enjoy alcohol in moderation / able to hold one's drink
izakaya (a kind of traditional Japanese pub)
lit. to refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit (idiom) / fig. to turn down a request only to be forced later to comply with it under pressure

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