Memory phrase for the character: 饮

饮

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Meaning

to drink

Pronunciation

yǐn

Explanation

 Left: food 饣/食 (Below the cover is good 良 food.), right: lack 欠 (A yawning person 人 is lacking sth.)

Mnemonic
 
(If you run out of food at the party, it's not so bad:) If food is lacking, you (instead) have to drink.

Radicals

食 eat, foodA person 人 needs something good 良 to eat, whereby the two bottom lines can perhaps also be seen as chopsticks.
欠 lack, yawnLike a person 人 who tears his mouth wide open when yawning and seems to have a lack (of good manners).




 Vocabulary

饮食 yǐn shí  food and drink
饮水 yǐn shuǐ  drinking water
饮酒 yǐn jiǔ  to drink wine
饮酒 yǐn jiǔ  

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