Definitions For Baijiu

Noun

BAIJIU (uncountable) A clear chinese distilled alcoholic beverage, generally distilled from sorghum and about 40-60% alcohol by volume.

Synonyms

shaojiu; samshu, samshoo {{q, obsolete}}

Hyponyms

samshu {{q, triple-distilled & rice-based}}; kaoliang, gaoliang {{q, sorghum-based}}

Translations

Chinese: : Mandarin: 白酒, tr=báijiǔ; 燒酒, tr=shāojiǔ : Min Nan: 江米酒 (kang-bí-chiú) Esperanto: {{t-needed, eo}} Finnish: baijiu, shaojiu Japanese: 白酒, tr=しろざけ, shirozake, sc=Jpan, パイチュウ (paichū, sc=Jpan), バイジュウ (baijū, sc=Jpan) Korean: 백주(白酒) Lü: {{t-needed, khb}} Mongolian: {{t-needed, mn}} Russian: байцзю́, n, шаоцзю́, n Tibetan: {{t-needed, bo}} Uyghur: ئاق ھاراق

See also

mijiu rice wine soju

Alternative forms

baiju

Etymology

From the pinyin romanization of {{bor, en, cmn, -}} {{zh-m, 白酒, tr=báijiǔ, , white alcohol}}, where "white" refers to its clearness. Compare huangjiu ("yellow alcohol").