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酒 — wine; liquor; spirits

wine; liquor; spirits; alcoholic beverage

Pinyin
jiǔ
Strokes
10
HSK level
HSK 2
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 酒: 10 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

酒 — 10 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 酒 in the HSK syllabus: 11

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 酒店jiǔdiànwine shop; pub; hotel; restaurant; hostess clubHSK 2
  2. 酒jiǔwine; liquor; spirits; alcoholic beverageHSK 3
  3. 啤酒píjiǔbeerHSK 3
  4. 白酒báijiǔbaijiu, a spirit usually distilled from sorghumHSK 4
  5. 葡萄酒pútaojiǔwineHSK 4
  6. 酒吧jiǔbābarHSK 5
  7. 酒精jiǔjīngethanol; ethyl alcoholHSK 6
  8. 酒水jiǔshuǐalcoholic and non-alcoholic beveragesHSK 6
  9. 酒楼jiǔlóurestaurantHSK 7–9
  10. 喜酒xǐjiǔwedding feast; liquor drunk at a wedding feastHSK 7–9
  11. 酗酒xùjiǔheavy drinking; to get drunk; to drink to excessHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.