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wine shop / pub (public house) / hotel / restaurant / (Tw) hostess club
HSK 2
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  *酒* | 酒* | *酒
wine (esp. rice wine) / liquor / spirits / alcoholic beverage / CL: , , , ,
HSK 2
beer (loanword) / CL: , , , ,
HSK 3
red wine
HSK 3
bar (place to buy drinks) / CL:
HSK 4
baijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghum / (Tw) white wine (abbr. for 白葡萄酒)
HSK 5
(grape) wine
HSK 5
drunkard
HSK 5
beverage; drink
HSK 6
heavy drinking / to get drunk / to drink to excess
HSK 7-9
wedding feast / liquor drunk at a wedding feast
HSK 7-9
restaurant
HSK 7-9
(coll.) ethanol; ethyl alcohol
HSK 7-9
to toast; to propose a toast
HSK 7-9
Jiuquan, prefecture-level city in Gansu Province 甘肅省|甘肃省
to drink (alcohol)
mulled wine
(loanword) rum
rum (beverage) (loanword)
abstaining from liquor and tobacco
Fenjiu (sorghum-based Chinese liquor)
gin
Port wine
lit. a chicken and a bottle of wine (idiom); fig. ready to make an offering to the deceased, or to entertain guests
draft beer / unpasteurized beer
drinking vessel / wine cup
never to touch a drop of alcohol
to love wine as one's life (idiom); fond of the bottle
beer; ale / (archaic) alcoholic drink made from fermented wheat or barley
tartaric acid
to play a drinking game
(loanword) liqueur
(loanword) rum
drinking buddy
to drink along (with sb)
erhua variant of 酒令
to drink wine
food and drink / food to accompany wine
tipsy and merry (idiom)
brewer's yeast
restaurant / bartender / (old) wineshop / tavern
eggnog
(idiom) to drown one's sorrows
drink and drive (moderately high blood alcohol concentration)
drinking party / wine reception
wine factory / distillery
good wine / fine liquor
to taste wine / to sip wine
lakes of wine and forests of meat (idiom); debauchery / sumptuous entertainment
distilled liquor / spirits
to make a fermented drink (i.e. to brew beer, make wine etc)
(calque) cocktail
to mix drinks / cocktail
wine cup
tavern / pub / wine shop
brewer's yeast / yeast for fermenting rice wine
name of a famous Tang dynasty wine / same as 白酒
to offer a libation / person who performs the libation before a banquet / senior member of a profession / important government post in imperial China
food and drink
bartender
sweet fermented rice / glutinous rice wine
to become drunk
to get drunk
liquor cabinet
a libation
strong alcoholic drink
words spoken under the influence of alcohol (idiom)
tobacco and alcohol
"yellow wine" (mulled rice wine, usually served warm)
to force sb to drink alcohol
wine pot / wine cup
banquet to celebrate a baby reaching one month of age
to play house (Tw)
lanterns red, wine green (idiom); feasting and pleasure-seeking / debauched and corrupt environment
sweet liquor
gin
capacity for liquor / how much one can drink
to urge sb to drink alcohol
wine-lover's heart is not in the cup (idiom); a drinker not really interested in alcohol / having an ulterior motive / to have other things in mind / with an ax to grind / accomplishing something besides what one set out to do
hops
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
spirit lamp
to prepare a feast
to drink as the result of having lost a bet
dimple (on the cheek when smiling)
alcoholism / alcohol poisoning
drinking party / to go on a binge / to paint the town red
to get wildly drunk
(Tw) fruit wine
to warm up wine / wine served warm, generally referring to Chinese wine such as 黃酒|黄酒 or 白酒
after wine, spit out the truth / in vino veritas
wine, sex, avarice and temper (idiom); four cardinal vices
hangover
(loanword) champagne / CL: ,
alcohol addiction
distiller's grain / wine lees
to live in the moment (idiom) / to live every day as if it were one's last / to enjoy while one can
well-aged wine with a mellow, rich taste / (esp.) yellow wine 黃酒|黄酒, made from rice or millet
to drink excessively

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