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Maotai
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Máotái
English
Etymology
From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of en cmn 茅台 Máotái Wade-Giles: Mao²-tʻai², reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin.
Pronunciation
mou′tī′
en aɪ 2
en Mao tai
Proper noun
en town county-level city/Renhuai prefecture-level city/Zunyi p/Guizhou c/China.
en 1935 The China Weekly Review https://books.google.com/books?id=IYcTAAAAIAAJ 72 9189590 147 MAOTAI CAPTURED BY SZECHUAN FORCESThe Szechuan pursuit forces, after recapturing Maotai, western Kweichow, crossed the Chihshui Ho (River) and we now reached Tsaochihpa, near the Kweichow-Szechuan border.
en February 13, 2011 Andrew Jacobs Andrew Jacobs (journalist) Fake Liquors Flow as Demand Soars for China’s Fabled Sorghum Spirit w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20131110084140/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/world/asia/14maotai.html November 10, 2013 https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/world/asia/14maotai.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific Here in Maotai, where the pungent odor of fermenting sorghum is overpowering and almost everyone works for the distillery, spiking prices have become a point of pride.
en AUGUST 26, 2021 Evelyn Cheng; Eustance Huang Chinese baijiu liquor stocks tumble amid regulatory concerns https://web.archive.org/web/20210826080300/https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/26/chinese-baijiu-liquor-stocks-tumble-amid-regulatory-concerns.html 26 August 2021 w:CNBC Signage for China Kweichow Moutai Distillery Co. baijiu liquor lines a road at the company’s facility in the Maotai section of the Renhuai District in Zunyi, Guizhou Province, China, on Thursday, April 7, 2011.
en
en informal en Moutai (liquor)
en 1973 Jules Archer Long March to the Caves of Yenan Chou En-lai https://archive.org/details/chouenlai00arch/ New York Hawthorn Books, Inc. 72-11212 671919 49 https://archive.org/details/chouenlai00arch/page/49/ Making inquiries, Chou ascertained that mao-t’ai was distilled with medicinal waters of the valley which had the unique property of producing a liquor that didn't go to one's head. on
Translations
town
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 茅臺 Máotái
Japanese: ja
en Distilled beverages