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醪

láo
noun

Meanings

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

Examples

HSK 7-9
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.
HSK 7-9
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