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酒吧

jiǔ bā

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 家

酒吧 (jiǔ bā) means "bar". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 酒吧 means

1. bar (place to buy drinks)

The characters in 酒吧

• 酒jiǔwine (esp. rice wine); liquor; spirits
• 吧ba(modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise); ...right?; ...OK?

Example sentences

• 他们在酒吧喝酒。
  They're at the bar drinking.
• 玛莉在喝红酒吧？
  Mary is drinking red wine, isn't she?
• 在转角有一家酒吧。
  Zài zhuǎnjiǎo yǒu yījiā jiǔbā.
  There's a pub just around the corner.
• 所有老师都在酒吧。
  All the teachers were in the pub.
• 昨天去酒吧有艳遇吗？
  Did you have any romantic encounter at the bar last night?
• 我跟我朋友常常去酒吧。
  Wǒ gēn wǒ péngyou chángcháng qù jiǔbā.
  My friends and I often go to the bar.

Sounds the same

Read jiǔ bā, tone for tone, but written differently.

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Where 酒吧 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Travel, Events & Social Venues (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read jiǔ bā correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.