老酒

lǎojiǔ
noun #39,467

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 aged rice wine
  2. 2 Shaoxing wine
  3. 3 aged liquor

Examples

Shàoxīng lǎojiǔ yuè chén yuè xiāng.
Shaoxing aged wine gets more fragrant with age.
Nǚ'ér chūshēng shí mái xià yī tán lǎojiǔ.
When the daughter was born, a jar of aged wine was buried.

Tips

culture
老酒 most commonly refers to Shaoxing yellow wine (). The tradition 女儿 buries a jar when a daughter is born, to be dug up and drunk at her wedding — by then the wine is deeply aged.

Stroke Order

lǎo
jiǔ