饮 — Edit Snapshot — Chinese Character Wiki

yǐnyìn HSK5

drink

approved by Prismcool · Feb 29, 2024, 04:27 AM · Reviewed by Prismcool on Feb 29, 2024, 04:27 AM

Sound component note

Changed fields: components

Simplified form of 飲. Pictograph of a person with an open mouth (欠) drinking from a wine vessel (酉). 欠 also represents the sound. The 酉 (wine) component and the open mouth was later reanalyzed as 饣 (eat).

Components

饣 Iconic component

饣 is a component form of 食. Used here to depict an open mouth drinking from a wine vessel (酉). Later reanalyzed as 饣 (eat).

欠 Sound Iconic component

Depicts a person bending over with their mouth open.

Change in sound

饮 and 欠 don't sound similar in modern Mandarin due to historical phonetic changes. They were more similar in older Chinese.

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode