IDENTITY
喝hēto drink
HSK 1Top 220
CORE MEANING
to drink
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to drinkHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 口mouth radical (kǒu)
- strokes
- 12
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰口曷
- mouth
- gives the sound hē (historical)
USAGE
Common words
喝水hē shuǐto drink water
喝茶hē cháto drink tea
喝汤hē tāngto drink soup
Graded examples
你想喝什么？Nǐ xiǎng hē shénme?HSK1
What would you like to drink?
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
A mouth (口) open — drinking.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #220
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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