飲

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

• KangXi: page 1417, character 19
• 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

Historical forms of the character 飲
Shang	Western Zhou	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Transcribed ancient scripts

In the oracle bone script, it was an ideogrammic compound (會意) : 酉 (“bottle (of alcoholic beverages)”) + 人 (“person”) + 口 (“mouth (occasionally with the tongue protruding)”) – a person bending over a bottle to drink the alcoholic beverage. The droplets represented drops of the drink or saliva.

In the bronze script, the mouth separated from the body and corrupted into 今 (OC *krɯm), while the rest of the body became 欠 (OC *kʰoms). These two components also acted as phonetic components. These changes were inherited in the seal script, leading Shuowen to interpret this character (㱃) as a phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qrɯmʔ, *qrɯms) : phonetic 酓 (OC *qʰɯːm, *qlamʔ, *qlɯːms) + semantic 欠 (“yawn”).

In the clerical script, 酓 has been modified to 食 (“to eat”), which is inherited in the current form.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ʔam (“to eat; to drink”).

飲

1. (literary or Cantonese, Hakka) to drink

   • 蒙舍蠻以椒、薑、桂和烹而飲之。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     蒙舍蛮以椒、姜、桂和烹而饮之。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Tang Dynasty, Fan Chuo, Manshu, chapter 7, part 7

     Méngshè Mán yǐ jiāo, jiāng, guì hé pēng ér yǐn zhī. [Pinyin]

     The Mengshe Barbarians use pepper, ginger, and cinnamon to boil as a drink.

   • 頸渴就飲水啦。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     颈渴就饮水啦。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     Geng² hot³ zau⁶ jam² seoi² laa¹. [Jyutping]

     Drink water if you get thirsty.

2. (Cantonese) to attend a banquet

   • 我今晚有得飲啊。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     我今晚有得饮啊。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     Ngo⁵ gam¹ maan^5-1 jau⁵ dak¹ jam² aa¹. [Jyutping]

     I have a banquet to attend.

3. to swallow (tears); to nurse (grievance); to keep in the heart
4. Alternative form of 隱／隐 (yǐn, “to hide; to conceal”).
5. beverage; drink
6. diet; food
7. (dialectal Cantonese, including Taishanese, Yangjiang; dialectal Gan; Min) rice water
8. (Xiamen, Zhangping, Taiwanese Hokkien) sticky and watery

飲

1. ^† to give (animals) water to drink; to water (animals)
2. (Sichuan) to water (plants)
3. ^† to wine and dine; to entertain with alcohol and food

• (to water) 澆灌／浇灌 (jiāoguàn)

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 飮)

• Go-on: おん (on)
• Kan-on: いん (in, Jōyō)
• Kun: のむ (nomu, 飲む, Jōyō)

From Middle Chinese 飲 (MC ʔˠiɪm^X, ʔˠiɪm^H).

The kan'on pronunciation, so likely a later borrowing.

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) い​ん [íꜜǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [ĩɴ]

飲 (hiragana いん, rōmaji in)

1. drink
2. bear; endure

飲 (hiragana いん, rōmaji in)

1. (literary) drinking (alcoholic beverages)
2. (literary) drink; beverage
3. (literary) banquet; feast

飲 (eumhun 마실 음 (masil eum))

1. drink
2. inhale

• 飮食 (음식): food

飲 (ẩm, ỡm, hẩm)

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