啤 (pí): beer
啤 (pí) is a Chinese character meaning “beer.” Classified as HSK Level 3 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 口 (semantic) and 卑 (phonetic). It ranks #2665 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 啤 mouth. Its radical form 口 (mouth) appears in many related characters such as 口 (kǒu, mouth), 叫 (jiào, to call, to be called), 右 (yòu, (bound form) right).
Definitions
- beer
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 啤
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 啤酒节 | pí jiǔ jié | Beer Festival |
| 啤酒花 | pí jiǔ huā | hops |
| 生啤酒 | shēng pí jiǔ | draft beer |
| 士多啤梨 | shì duō pí lí | (HK) (loanword) strawberry |
| 百威啤酒 | bǎi wēi pí jiǔ | Budweiser beer |
| 鲁特啤酒 | lǔ tè pí jiǔ | root beer |
| 青岛啤酒 | qīng dǎo pí jiǔ | Tsingtao Beer |
| 生啤 | shēng pí | draft beer |
| 果啤 | guǒ pí | fruit beer |
| 熟啤酒 | shú pí jiǔ | pasteurized beer |
| 鲜啤酒 | xiān pí jiǔ | draft beer |
| 啤酒厂 | pí jiǔ chǎng | brewery |
| 无醇啤酒 | wú chún pí jiǔ | low-alcohol beer |
| 燕京啤酒 | yān jīng pí jiǔ | Yanjing beer (Beijing beer brand) |
| 精酿啤酒 | jīng niàng pí jiǔ | craft beer |
啤 appears in 20 compound words: 25 as the first character, 25 as the last, and 50 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 啤 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
夏天喝一杯冰啤酒很解暑。
Xiàtiān hē yī bēi bīng píjiǔ hěn jiě shǔ.
Drinking a cold beer in summer is very refreshing.
陈乐怡:华润啤酒预测市盈率处过去5年偏低水平
chén lè yí : huá rùn pí jiǔ yù cè shì yíng lǜ chǔ guò qù 5 nián piān dī shuǐ píng
Chen Leyi: China Resources Beer's forecast price-earnings ratio is at a low level in the past five years
美国男喝啤酒一口干杯险送命 送医急救才知竟误吞瓶盖
měi guó nán hē pí jiǔ yī kǒu gān bēi xiǎn sòng mìng sòng yī jí jiù cái zhī jìng wù tūn píng gài
An American man drank beer and toasted to his death, only to be sent to the hospital for first aid only to find out that he had swallowed the bottle cap by mistake
...喝了酒对宝宝有没有影响?哪怕只喝了一小杯啤酒
. . . hē le jiǔ duì bǎo bǎo yǒu méi yǒu yǐng xiǎng ? nǎ pà zhī hē le yī xiǎo bēi pí jiǔ
... Does drinking alcohol affect the baby? Even if it's just a small beer
中华队全垒打、全场啤酒免费加满 金色三麦全台21家门市全力应...
zhōng huá duì quán lěi dǎ , quán chǎng pí jiǔ miǎn fèi jiā mǎn jīn sè sān mài quán tái 2 1 jiā mén shì quán lì yīng . . .
The Chinese team's home run and beer are refilled for free, and 21 stores in Taiwan are fully responsive...
用餐4人同行1人免費、啤酒買1送1!和逸飯店「棒球應援優惠」來了
yòng cān rén tóng háng rén miǎn 費 pí jiǔ 買 sòng ! hé yì 飯 diàn bàng qiú 應 yuán 優 huì 來 le
Dine with 4, get 1 free! Buy 1 beer, get 1 free! The "Baseball Cheer Promotion" is here at Heyi Hotel!
你有任何淡啤酒吗？
Nǐ yǒu rènhé dànpí jiǔ ma?
Do you have any light beer?
炎炎夏日来杯冰凉的啤酒，人生一乐也！
Yányán xiàrì lái bēi bīngliáng de píjiǔ, rénshēng yī lè yě!
There is nothing like cold beer on a hot day.
来杯冰啤酒就太棒了！
Lái bēi bīng píjiǔ jiù tài bàng le!
A cold beer would hit the spot!
啤酒瓶是玻璃做的。
Píjiǔ píng shì bōli zuò de.
Beer bottles are made of glass.
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