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酒 kanji
sake, alcohol
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
シュ
Kun readings
さけさか-
Words with 酒
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —酒さrosacea
- —酒肉alcohol and meat; food and drink
- —酒楼restaurant
- —愛酒love of alcohol; drinker
- —雑酒miscellaneous liquors (alcohol tax category); alcohol other than sake, shōchū, mirin, beer, etc.
- —酒盗dish of pickled skipjack tuna entrails sometimes mixed with sake, honey, mirin and onions (specialty of Kochi Prefecture)
- —酒米brewer's rice
- —和酒traditional Japanese alcohol (primarily sake, but also shōchū and fruit wine)
- —酒肆liquor shop; bar; barroom
- —年酒drinks to celebrate the New Year (sake, wine, etc.)
- —酒食food and (alcoholic) drink
- —罰酒alcohol drunk as a punishment (for arriving late, losing a game, etc.)
- —玉酒high-grade sake
- —飲酒consumption of alcohol (as prohibited by one of the Buddhist precepts); Buddhist precept prohibiting the consumption of alcohol
- —酒害diseases and problems caused by alcohol use; harmful effects of drinking alcohol; alcoholism
- —酒房liquor store
- —梨酒pear cider; pear liquor
- —汾酒fenjiu (distilled Chinese alcohol made from kaoliang)
- —御酒alcohol; sake
- —大酒heavy drinking; hard drinking