飲

See also 飮, and 饮

Translingual

simpl.		饮
trad.		飲

Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意): 食 + 欠.

Han character

飲 (radical 184 食+4, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人戈弓人 (OINO), four-corner 8778₂, composition ⿰飠欠)

1. drink
2. swallow
3. kind of drink

See also

• 喝
• 啉

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1417, character 33
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44063
• Dae Jaweon: page 1941, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4445, character 7
• Unihan data for U+98F2

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Cantonese

Hanzi

飲 (simplified 饮, Yale yam2, yam3)

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Japanese

Kanji

飲 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: いん (in), おん (on)
• Kun: のむ (nomu)

Compounds

• 飲酒
• 飲食
• 飲水
• 飲用
• 飲料
• 喫飲

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Korean

Hanja

飲 (hangeul 음, revised eum, McCune-Reischauer ŭm, Yale um)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

飲 (simplified 饮, pinyin yǐn (yin3), Wade-Giles yin³)

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Min Nan

Verb

飲 (traditional and simplified, POJ ím)

1. to drink (also 啉)

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Vietnamese

Han character

飲 (ẩm, ỡm, hẩm)