Chinese Character 喝 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

喝 meaning[3] in English

To Drink.

Variant Of 嗬[He1].

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are mouth (口) , and why (曷)

Its radical[1] is: (kou3) which means: Mouth, Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc), Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls, .kou3mouth

In cangjie it is written with RAPV

How to write 喝

To writehe1to drink you should write a combination of kou3mouth , he2why arranged in a shape:

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喝 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 喝 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:he1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Drink . Variant Of 嗬[He1]

Pinyin:kou3
Meaning[3]: Mouth . Classifier For Things With Mouths (People, Domestic Animals, Cannons, Wells Etc) . Classifier For Bites Or Mouthfuls

Pinyin:he2 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Why . How . When . What . Where

Pinyin:yue1
Meaning[3]: To Speak . To Say

Pinyin:gai4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Variant Of 丐[Gai4]

Pinyin:bao1
Meaning[3]: Archaic Variant Of 包[Bao1]

Pinyin:wang2 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 亡[Wang2]

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Pinyin:yin3 Shape:

Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 喝in English or Chinese