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醅

pēi
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 unstrained wine; new wine still containing dregs

Examples

HSK 7-9
盘飧市远无兼味，樽酒家贫只旧醅。
Pán sūn shì yuǎn wú jiān wèi, zūn jiǔ jiā pín zhǐ jiù pēi.
"My home-brewed unstrained wine is poor" - a humble line from a Du Fu poem welcoming a guest.
HSK 7-9
刚酿好的醅还没有过滤。
Gāng niàng hǎo de pēi hái méiyǒu guòlǜ.
The freshly fermented wine had not yet been filtered.

Tips

history
醅 is unfiltered wine still cloudy with dregs. It is best remembered from Du Fu's line about offering a guest only humble 旧醅 ("old unstrained wine").

Components

radical
酉 yǒu
wine vessel; the 10th Earthly Branch
酉 pictures a wine jar and is the radical for fermented things, marking 醅 as a kind of wine.
phonetic
咅 pǒu
(sound element)
The right side is the phonetic, supplying the pēi sound. The same element appears in 培, 陪, and 部, where it gives the bei/bu-type reading.

Stroke Order

醅 pēi