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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
- —飲酒戒Buddhist precept prohibiting the consumption of alcohol
- —酒税法Liquor Tax Act
- —酒造税brewery tax
- —大酒家heavy drinker; toper; sot
- —禁酒家abstainer; teetotaler; nondrinker
- —吐酒石tartar emetic; antimony potassium tartrate
- —御前酒Gozenshu (brand name for a sake)
- —甘露酒sweet sake (brewed with a higher proportion of kōji and less water); rich sweet sake; sweet liquor made by boiling egg and mirin with kudzu starch, aconite and cinnamon
- —酒池肉林sumptuous feast; debauch
- —ぶどう酒(grape) wine
- —赤葡萄酒red wine
- —りんご酒(alcoholic) cider; hard cider
- —白葡萄酒white wine
- —飲酒の害ill effects of drinking
- —紅灯緑酒(nights of) fun, food, and drink; bright-light district; nightlife district
- —美酒佳肴fine wines and prized delicacies
- —粗酒粗肴cheap wines and unpalatable dishes (a modest (self-deprecating) way of offering a meal to a guest)
- —酒石酸塩tartrate
- —不飲酒戒Buddhist precept prohibiting the consumption of alcohol
- —本醸造酒sake brewed without addition of saccharides and no more than 120 litres of seed alcohol per tonne