波特酒

bōtèjiǔ
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 Port wine (fortified sweet wine from the Douro Valley in Portugal)

Examples

Bōtèjiǔ tōngcháng zuòwéi cān hòu tiánjiǔ.
Port is usually served as a dessert wine after a meal.
Tā cóng Pútáoyá dài huílái yī píng chénnián bōtèjiǔ.
He brought back a bottle of vintage Port from Portugal.

Tips

memory
波特 transliterates 'Port' (the city of Porto in Portuguese is the namesake), and means 'alcohol/wine'. Same 波特 syllables show up in 波特兰 (Bōtèlán, Portland) and 哈利·波特 (Hālì Bōtè, Harry Potter) — none of them related, all transliterations.

Stroke Order

jiǔ