# 飲 — Drink

Frequency rank 514 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 紙 (Paper), less common than 友 (Friend).

- On’yomi: いん
- Kun’yomi: の
- Radical: 食 Eat (Kangxi 184)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

You eat (食) but lack (欠) water — without a drink, the meal is incomplete.

In words:

- 飲む のむ — to drink
- 飲み物 のみもの — a drink
- 飲み込む のみこむ — to gulp down;to swallow deeply;to understand;to take in;to catch on to;to learn;to digest

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