Jisho

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12 strokes
Radical:
eat, food 食 (飠)
Parts:
Variants:
drink, smoke, take
Kun:
の.む-の.み
On:
インオン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N4
969 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 飲 【イン】 drinking (sometimes esp. alcohol), drink, drinking party
  • 飲酒 【インシュ】 drinking alcohol
  • 暴飲 【ボウイン】 heavy drinking
  • 愛飲 【アイイン】 drinking habitually, being fond of (a drink)
  • 飲食 【インショク】 food and drink, eating and drinking
  • 飲酒 【オンジュ】 consumption of alcohol (as prohibited by one of the Buddhist precepts), Buddhist precept prohibiting the consumption of alcohol

Kun reading compounds

  • 飲む 【のむ】 to drink, to gulp, to swallow, to take (medicine), to smoke (tobacco), to engulf, to overwhelm, to keep down, to suppress, to accept (e.g. demand, condition), to make light of, to conceal
  • 飲む打つ買う 【のむうつかう】 drinking, gambling, and buying women in prostitution

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
yin3, yin4
Korean:
eum

Spanish

  • beber

Portuguese

  • beber
  • fumar
  • tomar

French

  • boire
  • fumer
  • prendre
351 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
250 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
230 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
935 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5159 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
489 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
100 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
2.14 Japanese for Busy People
323 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
323 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
132 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1903 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2127 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1111 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1510 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1486 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
44063P Morohashi
1692 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6680 New Nelson (John Haig)
1474 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1584 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
388 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
2862 2001 Kanji
8b4.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-4 SKIP code
8778.2 Four corner code
1-16-91 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
98f2 Unicode hex code

3 strokes
Radical:
mouth, opening
Parts:
mouth
Kun:
くち
On:
コウ
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 1
JLPT level N4
284 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 口 【ク】 mouth, speech, counter for people or implements
  • 口径 【コウケイ】 aperture, bore, calibre, caliber
  • 開口 【カイコウ】 opening, aperture (e.g. camera), opening one's mouth, beginning to speak, open, broad
  • 経口 【ケイコウ】 taken by mouth, oral
  • 口 【ク】 mouth, speech, counter for people or implements
  • 口 【クチ】 mouth, opening, hole, gap, orifice, mouth (of a bottle), spout, nozzle, mouthpiece, gate, door, entrance, exit, speaking, speech, talk (i.e. gossip), taste, palate, mouth (to feed), opening (i.e. vacancy), available position, invitation, summons, kind, sort, type, opening (i.e. beginning), counter for mouthfuls, shares (of money), stove burners, and swords
  • 猪口 【チョコ】 sake cup, small deep porcelain bowl for serving food
  • 赤口 【シャッコウ】 day that is unlucky except between the auspicious hours of 11am and 1pm (in the traditional calendar)

Kun reading compounds

  • 口 【くち】 mouth, opening, hole, gap, orifice, mouth (of a bottle), spout, nozzle, mouthpiece, gate, door, entrance, exit, speaking, speech, talk (i.e. gossip), taste, palate, mouth (to feed), opening (i.e. vacancy), available position, invitation, summons, kind, sort, type, opening (i.e. beginning), counter for mouthfuls, shares (of money), stove burners, and swords
  • 口利き 【くちきき】 mediation, good offices, intervention, mediator, middleman, influential person, person of influence, eloquence, eloquent person, way of speaking
  • 切り口 【きりくち】 cut end, section, opening, slit, point of view, (different) perspective, new approach
  • 大口 【おおぐち】 big mouth, mouth opened wide, boastful speech, tall talk, bragging, boasting, large amount, large quantity

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
kou3
Korean:
gu

Spanish

  • boca
  • orificio
  • apertura

Portuguese

  • boca

French

  • bouche
27 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
34 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
20 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
213 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
868 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
38 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
31 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
29 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.16 Japanese for Busy People
54 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
54 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
167 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
276 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4189 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2119 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2865 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
11 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
3227 Morohashi
3382 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
685 New Nelson (John Haig)
11 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
11 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
200 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
16 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3777 2001 Kanji
3d0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-3-1 SKIP code
3-3-0 SKIP code
6000.0 Four corner code
1-24-93 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
53e3 Unicode hex code