baijiu

Etymology
From the romanization of , where "white" refers to its clearness. Compare ("yellow alcohol").

Noun

 * 1) A clear Chinese distilled alcoholic beverage, generally distilled from sorghum and about 40-60% alcohol by volume.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 江米酒
 * Mandarin: ;
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, shaojiu
 * Japanese:, パイチュウ, バイジュウ
 * Korean:
 * Lü:
 * Mongolian:
 * Russian:, шаоцзю́
 * Tibetan:
 * Uyghur: ئاق ھاراق