喝

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

喝 (radical 30 口+9, 12 strokes, cangjie input 口日心女 (RAPV), four-corner 6602₇)

1. drink
2. shout, call out

See also

• 啉
• 飲

References

• KangXi: page 199, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3960
• Dae Jaweon: page 421, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 653, character 13
• Unihan data for U+559D

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Cantonese

Hanzi

喝 (Yale hot3)

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Japanese

Kanji

喝 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: かつ (katsu), かち (kachi)
• Kun: しかる (shikaru)

Compounds

• 喝采
• 喝破

Interjection

喝 (hiragana かつ, romaji katsu)

1. (Buddhism) an interjection used by Zen Buddhist masters to scold their students

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Korean

Hanja

喝 (hangeul 갈, 애, revised gal, ae, McCune-Reischauer kal, ae)

1. loud voice
2. to call out, yell, shout
3. to scold

Compounds

• 喝采 (갈채, galchae, “applause”)
• 喝取 (갈취, galchwi, “blackmailing”)
• 喝破 (갈파, galpa, “proclamation”)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

喝 (pinyin hē (he1), Wade-Giles ho¹)

Verb

喝 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin hē)

1. (Beginning Mandarin) to drink

   喝了蜜

   喝闷酒

   喝墨水

   喝西北风

   喝醉

Verb

喝 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin hè)

1. to shout; to call out

Compounds

• 喝彩

  喝斥

  喝倒彩

  喝道

  喝令

  喝六呼幺

  喝问

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Vietnamese

Han character

喝 (hát, ạc, hét, hết, hít, ặc, kệ)