米酒

Chinese

		rice; metre	alcoholic drink
trad. (米酒)		米	酒
simp. #(米酒)		米	酒
anagram		酒米

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǐjiǔ

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˇ ㄐㄧㄡˇ

• Cantonese

  (Guangzhou–Hong Kong, Jyutping): mai⁵ zau²

  (Taishan, Wiktionary): mai² diu²

• Eastern Min (BUC): mī-ciū
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): bí-chiú

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: mǐjiǔ [Phonetic: míjiǔ]
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˇ ㄐㄧㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: mǐjiǒu
    • Wade–Giles: mi³-chiu³
    • Yale: mǐ-jyǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: miijeou
    • Palladius: мицзю (miczju)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi²¹⁴⁻³⁵ t͡ɕi̯oʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: mai⁵ zau²
    • Yale: máih jáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mai⁵ dzau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: mei⁵ zeo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mɐi̯¹³ t͡sɐu̯³⁵/
  • (Taishanese, Taicheng)
    • Wiktionary: mai² diu²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ᵐbai⁵⁵ tiu⁵⁵/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: mī-ciū
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /mi³³⁻³⁵ ^(t͡s-)ʒieu³³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bí-chiú
    • Tâi-lô: bí-tsiú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: byciuo
    • IPA (Xiamen): /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siu⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /bi⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡siu⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siu⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /bi⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siu⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /bi⁴¹⁻⁴⁴ t͡siu⁴¹/

Noun

米酒

1. mijiu; rice wine (Classifier: 杯 m; 瓶 m)
2. (Wuhan Mandarin, Pingxiang Gan, Huizhou, Eastern Min) jiuniang

Synonyms

• (mijiu): (Hokkien) 幌頭仔／幌头仔, (Xiang) 穀酒／谷酒

Dialectal synonyms of 酒釀 (“jiuniang”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		酒釀, 醪糟, 江米酒
Northeastern Mandarin	Harbin	江米酒
Central Plains Mandarin	Luoyang	江米酒
	Wanrong	醪糟坯子
	Xi'an	醪糟, 醪糟兒
	Xining	醪糟兒
	Xuzhou	米酒, 江米酒, 糯米酒
Lanyin Mandarin	Yinchuan	醪酒
	Lanzhou	醪糟子
	Ürümqi	醪酒
Southwestern Mandarin	Chengdu	醪糟兒, 醪糟浮子, 醪糟水, 醪糟兒浮子, 醪糟兒水
	Wuhan	甜酒, 米酒, 伏汁酒
	Guiyang	甜酒
	Kunming	白酒, 甜白酒
	Liuzhou	糯米甜酒, 甜酒
Jianghuai Mandarin	Nanjing	酒釀, 江米酒
	Yangzhou	米甜酒
	Nantong	酒釀, 江糟酒
Cantonese	Guangzhou	酒釀, 糯米甜酒
	Hong Kong	糯米酒
	Taishan	酒糟
	Dongguan	糯米酒
Gan	Nanchang	酒娘子
	Lichuan	甲酒
	Pingxiang	糯米酒, 甜酒, 米酒, 醐娘酒
Hakka	Meixian	酒娘, 甲酒
	Yudu	酒娘
Huizhou	Jixi	米酒, 甜酒
Jin	Taiyuan	醪糟
	Xinzhou	醪糟兒
Eastern Min	Fuzhou	米酒
Southern Min	Xiamen	酒釀, 酒飯
	Zhangzhou	白酒
	Leizhou	秫米糟, 甜糟
	Haikou	甜糟
Southern Pinghua	Nanning (Tingzi)	甜酒
Wu	Shanghai	酒釀, 酒板, 甜酒釀
	Shanghai (Songjiang)	酒釀糟
	Shanghai (Chongming)	酒釀, 酒板
	Suzhou	酒釀, 冬釀酒, 糯米酒
	Wuxi	老白酒
	Changzhou	白酒
	Danyang	白酒糟
	Hangzhou	甜酒釀, 酒釀
	Ningbo	酒釀, 漿板
	Wenzhou	酒釀, 蜜林檎
	Jinhua	甜酒釀, 酒釀
Xiang	Changsha	甜酒
	Loudi	酒娘

Derived terms

• 糊湯米酒／糊汤米酒 (hútāngmǐjiǔ)

 

Descendants

• → Japanese: 米酒 (bīchū), 米酒 (bīchu)

Korean

Hanja in this term
米	酒

Noun

米酒 • (miju) (hangeul 미주)

1. Hanja form^? of 미주 (“rice wine”).