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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
pí | pi2
English translation
beer

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Number of strokes

11

Traditional form

Contains the radical

kǒu

Part of speech

Noun / 名词 míng cí Míngcí

Learning hint

mouth

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

口卑

Semantic compound

kǒu

Phonetic compound

bēi

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. kǒu represents the meaning and bēi represents the sound.

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hěn , qǐng gěi bàn 品脱 pǐn tuō de 啤酒 píjiǔ .

I'm rather thirsty. bring me half a pint of beer, please.

yǒu rén 已经 yǐjīng le 啤酒 píjiǔ ,或者 huòzhě diào le .

Somebody had drunk the beer or thrown it away.

bēi 啤酒 píjiǔ 猛地 měng de zài de 脸上.

She dashed a glass of beer in his face.

防止 fángzhǐ 啤酒 píjiǔ biàn huài de 主要 zhǔyào 方法 fāngfǎ shì yòng chún 酵母菌 jiào mǔ jūn zhū 发酵 fā jiào .

The principal methods of avoiding spoilage are the use of pure yeast strains as starters.

jiǔ Huā de 作用 zuòyòng shì 使 shǐ 啤酒 píjiǔ .

Hops serve to embitter beer.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
啤酒 píjiǔ beer (loanword)啤酒 píjiǔ
beer
啤酒花 pí jiǔ huā hops啤酒花 pí jiǔ huā
啤酒节 pí jiǔ jié Beer Festival啤酒節
啤酒肚 pí jiǔ dù beer belly啤酒肚 pí jiǔ dù
扎啤 zhā pí draft beer扎啤 zhā pí
生啤 shēng pí draft beer生啤 shēng pí
生啤酒 shēng pí jiǔ draft beer生啤酒 shēng pí jiǔ

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Decomposition

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