飲 drink
- On'yomi
- イン
- Kun'yomi
- の-む
- Strokes
- 12
- JLPT
- N5
- Taught in
- Primary school, year 3
In the kun'yomi, the kana after a dash are written after the kanji (okurigana): の-む.
Stroke order
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
- 12
Remember it
Food on the left, and on the right a person yawning with a wide-open mouth — that gaping mouth is missing something, so you pour a drink into it.
A common word
- 飲み物 のみもの beverage
Example sentences
毎朝コーヒーを飲みます。
まいあさコーヒーをのみます。
I drink coffee every morning.
お酒は飲まないんです。
おさけはのまないんです。
I don't drink alcohol.
Kanji that share a part
飠 is its radical.
- 飯 meal
- 館 building
- 飢 starve N1
- 飽 satiate N1
- 飾 decorate N1
- 飼 domesticate N1
- 餓 starve N1
欠 is a component. 14 kanji share it in all.
- 歌 song
- 次 next N3
- 吹 blow N3
- 欲 longing N3
- 欧 europe N2
- 軟 soft N2
- 炊 cook N1
- 欣 take Pleasure In N1