Father stopped drinking.
戒酒
to give up drinking
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Meaning and common use
to give up drinking
to abstain from drinking
How 戒酒 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 戒酒 appears in 10 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
I advise you to give up drinking.
He advised her to stop drinking.
Words that keep company with 戒酒.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 戒酒.
Directly before
- 戒烟戒酒2
- 父亲戒酒1
- 尝试戒酒1
- 试图戒酒1
- 已经戒酒1
Directly after
- 戒酒了4
- 戒酒一年1
- 戒酒之后1
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.
About 戒酒
What does 戒酒 mean in Chinese?
戒酒 (jièjiǔ) means to give up drinking.
How do you pronounce 戒酒?
戒酒 is pronounced jièjiǔ.
Is 戒酒 an HSK word?
戒酒 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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