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Beer in Chinese

beer · HSK 3

啤酒 pí jiǔ

  1. 啤 pí beer
  2. 酒 jiǔ alcohol

Counted with 瓶: 一瓶啤酒 yì píng píjiǔ

下班后我们去喝杯啤酒吧。 Let's go have a beer after work.

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How do you say beer in Chinese?

Beer in Chinese is 啤酒 (pí jiǔ).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

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The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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