• 酒さけ — sake (Japanese rice wine)
• 酒屋さかや — liquor store
• 飲酒いんしゅ — drinking alcohol
• 禁酒きんしゅ — abstaining from alcohol
• 居酒屋いざかや — Japanese-style pub
• 酒場さかば — bar, tavern

The kanji 酒 combines the radical for “liquid” (水みず) with 酉とり, which originally referred to a jar. It came to mean fermented liquids — especially alcohol. It is commonly seen in social and culinary contexts in Japan.

日本にほんの酒さけは 有名ゆうめいです。
Japanese sake is famous.

昨夜さくやは 飲酒いんしゅを控ひかえました。
I refrained from drinking last night.

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