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huang-chiu

huang-chiu is the alternative form of huangjiu.

Meaning of huangjiu

Noun

huangjiu (uncountable)

  1. A class of Chinese alcoholic beverages made from fermented grains including rice, millet, and wheat, typically 10–20% alcohol by volume.
    Synonyms:
    yellow wine

Origin of huang-chiu

From the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 黃酒 /黄酒 (huángjiǔ, “yellow alcohol”).

Questions about huang-chiu

What is huang-chiu the alternative form of?
Huang-chiu is the alternative form of huangjiu.

Words near huang-chiu in the dictionary

  1. Huang Ho
  2. Huang'an
  3. Huang-an
  4. Huang-ch'i
  5. Huang-ch'uan
  6. huang-chiu
  7. Huang-chou
  8. Huang-kang
  9. Huang-mei
  10. Huang-pei
  11. Huang-shan

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Adapted from Wiktionary: huang-chiu (page history and authors); huangjiu (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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