Character Details
| drink (to) | Ascii: — | w195 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 喝 | hè | heuh | 1 | 口 (mouth) + 曷 (why) → drink | 喝 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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If you have a siesta with your mouth open, you will wake up with a hoarse voice and want to drink something. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I Like drinking/eating soup | - I would like to drink cold water | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 31 - 口 | kǒu | mouth | mouth | square mouth | 口 吃 和 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 口 (mouth) + 曷 (why) → drink | 口 (semantic) | 曷 (phonetic) | phonetic from 曷 | ||||||||