sake cup; wine cup
A small cup for drinking sake or wine. Often used in literary or formal contexts; in everyday speech, おちょこ or さかずき are more common.
He picked up the sake cup and quietly made a toast.
More common word for a sake cup, often used in ceremonies or traditional settings.
Standard kanji spelling.
Contains the outdated kanji 盃; rarely used in modern writing.
Compound of 酒 (sake) and 杯 (cup). The reading しゅはい is the on'yomi of both characters.