飲 – drink, smoke, take

12 strokesTaught in grade 3#969 in newspaper frequencyN5 vocabulary

The kanji 飲 means drink, smoke, take. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is イン、オン (in, on); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is の.む、-の.み (nomu, nomi). It is written with 12 strokes, under radical 食 (no. 184).

Stroke order

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Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	イン	in
On’yomi	オン	on
Kun’yomi	の.む	nomu
Kun’yomi	-の.み	nomi

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 食 (Kangxi radical 184). Components: 欠・食.

Words using 飲

飲むのむto drink飲み物のみものdrink湯飲ゆのみteacup湯飲みゆのみteacup飲み込むのみこむto swallow

Example sentences

この薬を飲まなければ行けませんか。

Must I take this medicine?

Tatoeba #219269

何か飲み物をいただけますか。

May I have something to drink?

Tatoeba #188051

壊れた湯飲みの補充をした。

I replaced the broken cups with new ones.

Tatoeba #185170

Kanji with the same radical

食館養飯飾飼飢飽餅餌飴饉

Sources: KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0), KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). About the data.