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(spirits) cut with hot water; hot-water highball
An alcoholic drink, typically 焼酎 or whisky, diluted with hot water. Commonly drunk in winter to warm up. The base spirit is usually named: 焼酎の湯割り.
焼酎の湯割りを一杯ください。
One shochu with hot water, please.
寒い夜は湯割りが体を温めてくれる。
On a cold night, a hot-water highball warms you up.
父は毎晩芋焼酎を湯割りにして飲んでいる。
My father drinks sweet-potato shochu cut with hot water every night.
Compound of 湯 (hot water) + 割り (dilution). Contrasts with 水割り (cut with cold water) and ロック (on the rocks).
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 焼酎の湯割り: shochu cut with hot water
- 湯割りで飲む: to drink it as a yuwari
- 湯割りにする: to make it a yuwari
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 水割り: cut with cold water — same idea but cold
- お{湯割り}: polite form, used in restaurants/bars
- ロック: on the rocks — no water, just ice