drink

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

曷 sound component

  Sound component

  

why? what? where?

Evolution

喝 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
喝 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

drink; shout, call out; to drink; variant of [hē]

 

to shout

Most common words with 喝
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to drink

喝酒

to drink (alcohol)

喝茶

to drink tea

喝道

(of yamen bailiffs etc) to walk ahead of an official, shouting at pedestrians to clear the way

喝彩

to acclaim

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 71.6482% of movies

415th most common character in movies

983rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+559D

Shuowen

“喝,也。从口,曷聲。”


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