喝
2 readings · tap one to hear it
to drink; variant of 嗬[he1]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 口 +9
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 喝
- Common rank
- #1,526
- Unicode
- U+559D
Sound it out + = · + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
drink · Heisig RSH #851
口 mouth + siesta
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 喝
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 喝西北风 | (lit.) to drink the northwest wind (idiom); (fig.) to go hungry; to have nothing to eat | |
| 大吃大喝 | to eat and drink as much as one likes; to make a pig of oneself | |
| 白吃白喝 | to freeload | |
| 大吃二喝 | to eat and drink extravagantly; to binge | |
| 牛不喝水强按头 | lit. to try to make an ox drink by forcing its head down to the water (idiom); fig. to try… | |
| 牛不喝水难按角 | (idiom) you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink | |
| 胡吃海喝 | to eat and drink gluttonously; to pig out | |
| 三个和尚没水喝 | lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom); fig. everybody's business is nobody's bus… | |
| 吃喝拉撒 | (coll.) eating, drinking, defecating and urinating; the mundane necessities of everyday li… | |
| 喝凉水都塞牙 | (coll.) to be out of luck | |
| 呼来喝去 | to call to come and shout to go (idiom); to yell orders; always bossing people around | |
| 吃喝玩乐 | (lit.) to eat, drink, play and be merry (idiom); (fig.) to abandon oneself to a life of pl… | |
| 喝断片 | to get blackout drunk (slang) | |
| 喝高 | to get drunk | |
| 喝道 | to shout (i.e. to say in a loud voice) (usually followed by the words shouted); (old) (of … | |
| 吃喝拉撒睡 | (coll.) eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping; the mundane necessities of e… | |
| 喝光 | to drink up; to finish (a drink) | |
| 吃香喝辣 | lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom); fig. to live well | |
| 好喝 | tasty (drinks) | |
| 喝酒 | to drink (alcohol) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 曷 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 曷 sound part | what, why, where, which, how | |
| 褐 | coarse wool; dull, brown | |
| 揭 | to lift off a cover; to reveal, to divulge; surname | |
| 葛 | an edible bean; vine; surname | |
| 歇 | to stop, to rest, to lodge | |
| 竭 | to exhaust; to put forth great effort | |
| 渴 | thirsty, parched; to yearn, to pine for | |
| 羯 | wether, castrated ram; deer skin | |
| 谒 | to visit, to pay respects | |
| 蝎 | scorpion | |
| 遏 | to curb, to check, to stop, to suppress | |
| 猲 | frightened, terrified; snub-nosed dog | |
| 碣 | stone tablet |