Home › Words › S › samshusamshusamshu means A triple-distilled variety of rice-based baijiu.EtymologyFrom Cantonese 三燒 /三烧 (“thrice-burnt”), a former name of 三蒸酒 (sānzhēngjiǔ, “thrice-distilled alcohol”).nounA triple-distilled variety of rice-based baijiu.e.g.“It would seem to be a purer ethyl spirit than samshu and other forms, as it does not have the delirient action possessed by many of these, which seem to contain large percentages of methyl spirit.” — 2003, Li Shizhen et al., Chinese Medicinal Herbs: A Modern Edition of a Classic Sixteenth-Century Manual:Synonym of baijiu.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).