飲む

Kanji breakdown

• 飲 (yǐn) · 12 strokes

  Pictograph of a person with an open mouth (欠) drinking from a wine vessel (酉). 欠 also represents the sound. The 酉 (wine) component and the open mouth was later reanalyzed as 飠 (eat).

• む

Example sentences

1. 何か飲む？ — Do you want something to drink?
2. ビール飲む？ — Do you want to drink some beer?
3. チャイを飲む。 — I’ll drink chai.
4. コーヒー、飲む？ — Do you want to have some coffee?
5. これを飲むんだ。 — Drink this.

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