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shōchū

shōchū is the alternative form of shochu.

Meaning of shochu

Noun

shochu (usually uncountable, plural shochus)

  1. (usually) 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.
    • Lightly flavored shochus, like the barley-based Iichiko, are good mixed with soda water made on the premises with fresh lemon or in a cocktail like the Natsushima […]2022, Steve Reddicliffe, The New York Times Essential Book of Cocktails (Second Edition) (page 582)

Forms of shōchū

pluralshōchūs

Questions about shōchū

What is shōchū the alternative form of?
Shōchū is the alternative form of shochu.

Words near shōchū in the dictionary

  1. Shānxi
  2. Shīʻism
  3. Shīʻite
  4. shō
  5. shōchikubai
  6. shōchū
  7. shōchūs
  8. shōgun
  9. shōgunal
  10. shōgunate
  11. shōgunates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shōchū (page history and authors); shochu (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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