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飲

Level IV of XX on the frequency path

Frequency rank 514 / 2,608

Drink

On’yomi
いん
Kun’yomi
の
Radical
食 Eat (Kangxi 184)

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

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

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

In words

飲む のむ to drinkN5
飲み物 のみもの a drinkN5
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 digestN1

飲 is rank 514 of 2,608 in published Japanese.

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