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醪

láo
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 unfiltered rice wine (with sediment)
  2. 2 turbid wine

Examples

四川人喜欢在汤圆里加醪糟。
Sìchuānrén xǐhuan zài tāngyuán lǐ jiā láozāo.
Sichuan people love to add fermented rice wine to tangyuan.
老师傅正在酿一缸醪酒。
Lǎo shīfu zhèngzài niàng yì gāng láo jiǔ.
The old craftsman is brewing a vat of unfiltered rice wine.

Tips

culture
醪 is unfiltered rice wine — the grains are left in. The everyday word is 醪糟 ('fermented glutinous rice'), a sweet, mildly alcoholic dessert base popular in Sichuan cooking.

Components

radical
酉 yǒu
wine vessel; alcohol
酉 is the wine-jar radical, used in characters about alcohol and fermentation. It marks 醪 as a kind of wine.
phonetic
翏 liù
soaring (phonetic)
翏 on the right is the phonetic; the reading drifted to láo. The same phonetic appears in 缪 and 戮.

Stroke Order

醪 láo