飲

See also: 飮 and 饮

Translingual

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)

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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Chinese

		-
trad.		飲
simp.		饮

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yǐn (yin³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄣˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jam², jam³
• Min Nan (POJ): im

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yǐn
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄣˇ
    • Wade-Giles: yin³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: yiin
    • IPA ^(key): /in²¹⁴/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: jam², jam³
    • Yale: yám, yam
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jam², jam³
    • IPA ^(key): /jɐm³⁵/, /jɐm³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: im
    • Tâi-lô: im
    • IPA (Taipei): /im⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /im³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (飲, reconstructed)
Character (飲), Pronunciation 1/2
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 侵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 於錦切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔiɪmX/	/ʔi̯əmX/	/ʔiəmX/	/ʔimX/	/ʔimX/	/ĭĕmX/	/ʔjemX/
Character (飲), Pronunciation 2/2
Initial: 影 (34) Final: 侵 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Departing (H)			Fanqie: 於禁切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ʔiɪmH/	/ʔi̯əmH/	/ʔiəmH/	/ʔimH/	/ʔimH/	/ĭĕmH/	/ʔjemH/

Old Chinese pronunciation (飲, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
飲								yǐn								‹ ʔimX ›								/*q(r)[u]mʔ/								drink (v.)
飲								yìn								‹ ʔimH ›								/*q(r)[ə]mʔ-s/								give to drink
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
飲					6625					今					侵					1					㱃					/*qrɯmʔ/					說文作酓欠
飲					6626					今					侵					1					蔭					/*qrɯms/					同㱃

Definitions

飲

1. to drink
2. to swallow
3. beverage; kind of drink

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Japanese

Kanji

飲

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. to drink, consume
2. to overwhelm

Readings

• Goon: おん (on)
• Kan’on: いん (in)
• Kun: のむ (nomu)

Compounds

• 飲酒
• 飲食
• 飲水
• 飲用
• 飲料
• 喫飲
• 愛飲

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

飲 (ẩm, ỡm, hẩm)

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