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shōchū

shōchū

See also: shochu

English

Noun

shōchū ‎(uncountable)

  1. A Japanese alcoholic beverage, most commonly distilled from barley, sweet potato or rice. Typically it is 25% alcohol by volume, making it weaker than whisky, but stronger than wine and sake.

Japanese

Romanization

shōchū

  1. rōmaji reading of しょうちゅう

Etymology

From Japanese 焼酎 (shōchū しょうちゅう), from Middle Chinese 燒酒 (ʃew-t͡sjúw "liquor") (compare Mandarin shāojiǔ 烧酒, Korean soju ), from 燒 ("burn", "flammable") + 酒 ("alcohol").

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