酒

• 読み: さけ
• ローマ字: sake
• 漢字の分解: 酒 (sake/shu) — alcohol, sake
• 発音: /sa.ke/

意味

Alcohol; sake; alcoholic beverage. General term for alcoholic drinks, or specifically Japanese rice wine.

A noun with two overlapping uses: (1) alcohol in general (any alcoholic drink), and (2) specifically Japanese rice wine (nihonshu). In everyday speech, お酒 (with honorific prefix) is the standard form. Common compounds: 日本酒 (Japanese sake), 酒屋 (liquor store), 居酒屋 (izakaya, Japanese pub). The word is fundamental to Japanese social culture.

例文

1. 週末に友達とお酒を飲んだ。
2. お酒は二十歳になってから飲めます。
3. 父はお酒に強いが、私は弱い。

使い方ガイド

場面: social life, dining, culture

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

The kanji 酒 combines 氵 (water radical) and 酉 (wine vessel, tenth zodiac sign). The vessel radical 酉 originally depicted a jar for fermenting alcohol, clearly connecting to the meaning.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Universal