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[1] [v,n] to drink; drinks; beverage [2] [v] swallow (tears); nurse (grievance) [3] [v] be hit by; receive (a bullet, an arrow, etc) [related term] 食
Additional PoS:   Stroke count: 13
Level: 1
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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| This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 1st Mar 2011 04:12 | ||
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飲品
jam2 ban2 = drinks; beverages
飲食
jam2 sik6 = food and drink; to eat and drink
飲茶
jam2 caa4 = to drink tea; to go out for dim sum 粵
飲料
jam2 liu6*2 = drinks; beverages
飲嘢
jam2 je5 = [v] to drink (sth) 粵
飲勝
jam2 sing3 = cheers; bottoms up 粵
揀飲擇食
gaan2 jam2 zaak6 sik6 = picky eater 粵
飲水思源
jam2 seoi2 si1 jyun4 = to not forget one's origins
飲管
jam2 gun2 = drinking straw
暴飲暴食
bou6 jam2 bou6 sik6 = engorgementSee all 70 compounds (CantoDict reports 71 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations) |
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Showing 10 of 17 examples containing 飲
啲湯熱得滯！唔好飲住。 粵 ?!
The soup's too hot! Don't drink it yet. [Lit. [plural counter] soup hot too-much. Don't eat [extensional-aspect particle] him.]
車站入閘後及車廂內，嚴禁飲食
Eating or drinking is not allowed on trains, or in the paid areas of stations. [MTR announcement]
請注意，地鐵車廂內嚴禁飲食，請保持車廂清潔衛生，多謝合作
Please remember. No eating or drinking on MTR trains. Help us keep them fresh, clean and tidy. Thank you! [MTR announcement] Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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Forum Code to link to this word:
[big][url=http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/characters/126/]飲[/url][/big]
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Decimal representation of this word: 飲
Unicode code for this character: U+98f2 (off-site link)
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HTML Code to link to this word:
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Decimal representation of this word: 飲
Unicode code for this character: U+98f2 (off-site link)
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