also: ビール
Common alcoholic drink; the standard word in modern Japanese.
See also: ビール
I want to drink a cold beer.
冷えた麦酒を一杯飲んだ。
I drank a cold beer.
Standard modern spelling; loanword from Dutch 'bier'.
Ateji spelling; rarely used in modern Japanese. Reading ビール is a gikun (meaning-based reading).
Sino-Japanese reading of the ateji spelling; very rare and mostly historical.
Loanword from Dutch 'bier', entering Japanese during the Edo period. The ateji spelling 麦酒 (wheat alcohol) is a semantic rendering.