饮 — Chinese character
饮
yǐn
to swallow, to drink; a kind of drink
- Pinyin
- yǐn
- Radical
- 184 ⾷ (Eat)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 饣 欠
- Formation
- pictophonetic — food; meaning component 饣; sound component 欠
- Traditional
- 飲
Common words with 饮
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 饮食 (飲食) | yǐn shí | eating and drinking; food and drink; diet |
| 饮料 (飲料) | yǐn liào | drink; beverage |
| 餐饮 (餐飲) | cān yǐn | food and beverage; catering |
| 饮酒 (飲酒) | yǐn jiǔ | to drink wine |
| 饮用 (飲用) | yǐn yòng | drink; drinking or drinkable (water) |
| 饮水 (飲水) | yǐn shuǐ | to drink water; drinking water |
| 饮水 (飲水) | yìn shuǐ | to give water (to animals) |
| 饮品 (飲品) | yǐn pǐn | beverage |
| 饮用水 (飲用水) | yǐn yòng shuǐ | drinking water; potable water |
| 餐饮业 (餐飲業) | cān yǐn yè | food service industry; catering industry |
| 冷饮 (冷飲) | lěng yǐn | cold drink |
| 饮茶 (飲茶) | yǐn chá | to drink tea; (Cantonese) to have tea and dim sum |
English words written with 饮
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.