4 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
originFrom Korean 소주(燒酒) (soju). Compare Mandarin 燒酒 /烧酒 (shāojiǔ), Japanese 焼酎 (shōchū, “shōchū”). Doublet of shaojiu and shochu.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0