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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

喝酒

hējiǔ

to drink (alcohol)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to drink (alcohol)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 喝酒 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 喝酒 appears in 65 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

不要喝酒。bú yào hē jiǔ。

Don't drink any alcohol.

你喝酒吗?nǐ hē jiǔ ma?

Do you drink alcohol?

我不怎麽喝酒。wǒ bù zěn mó hē jiǔ。

I don't drink much wine.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 喝酒.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 喝酒.

Directly before

  • 不喝酒12
  • 喜欢喝酒4
  • 去喝酒3
  • 我喝酒3
  • 空腹喝酒2

Directly after

  • 喝酒了4
  • 喝酒吗3
  • 喝酒的3
  • 喝酒也1
  • 喝酒对1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 喝酒

What does 喝酒 mean in Chinese?

喝酒 (hējiǔ) means to drink (alcohol).

How do you pronounce 喝酒?

喝酒 is pronounced hējiǔ.

Is 喝酒 an HSK word?

喝酒 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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