(hē) - to drink in Mandarin
hēTraditional: 喝
Translation
to drink
Word origin
喝 (hē, 'to drink') is a phono-semantic compound: 口 (the mouth radical) gives the meaning of an action done with the mouth, while 曷 (hé) supplies the sound.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 口 (mouth radical) + 曷 (hé, phonetic)
Stroke order
喝
Examples
？
What would you like to drink?
。
I like to drink tea.
。
He drinks coffee every morning.
。
I want to drink a cup of hot tea.
牛。
He drinks milk every morning.
喝 (hē) - to drink.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 喝.
Used in
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