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啤酒
Meaning
- beer (loanword)
Measure word
杯 bēi or 瓶 píng or 罐 guàn or 桶 tǒng or 缸 gāng
Example sentence
啤酒没气了。
The beer is stale.
Characters in 啤酒
- 啤 pí beer — a borrowed sound, again written with the mouth radical
- 酒 jiǔ wine (esp. rice wine)
啤 a mouth-radical character carrying only sound, plus 酒, alcohol. The sound is borrowed from beer and the 酒 says what kind of drink it is.