pú táo jiǔ
wine; grape wine
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我喜欢喝葡萄酒。
wǒ xǐhuān hē pútáojiǔ.
I like drinking wine.
葡萄酒的种类很多。
pútáojiǔ de zhǒnglèi hěn duō.
There are many kinds of wine.
葡萄酒的价格很贵。
pútáojiǔ de jiàgé hěn guì.
The price of wine is very expensive.
红酒 (hóngjiǔ)
red wine
葡萄酒 (pútáojiǔ)
wine
啤酒 (píjiǔ)
beer
白酒 (báijiǔ)
Chinese white spirit
The Chinese word for wine, 葡萄酒 (pútáojiǔ), is a compound of two characters: 葡 (pú), meaning "grape", and萄 (táo), meaning "peach". The character 萄 is a phonetic loan character, meaning that it was borrowed from another language to represent a similar sound. In this case, the character 萄 was borrowed from the Persian word for grape, "angūr". The character 萄 was then combined with the character 葡, which was already in use in Chinese to refer to grapes, to create the new word 葡萄酒, meaning "grape wine".
