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喝

喝

喝 U+559D, 喝
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-559D
← 喜
[U+559C] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 喞 →
[U+559E]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

喝 (radical 30 口+9 in Chinese, 口+8 in Japanese, in Chinese 12 strokes, in Japanese 11 strokes, cangjie input 口日心女 (RAPV), four-corner 66027, composition ⿰口曷)

References

  • KangXi: page 199, character 11
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3960
  • Dae Jaweon: page 421, character 3
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 653, character 13
  • Unihan data for U+559D

Usage notes

Han unification: Japanese character appears as 喝, while it normally appears as 喝 in other scripts.

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 喝

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 喝
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (曷) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
愒 *kʰaːds, *kʰrads, *kʰrad
馤 *qaːds
靄 *qaːds, *qaːd
餲 *qraːds, *qrads, *ɡaːd, *qaːd
喝 *qraːds, *qʰoːb, *qʰaːd
揭 *kʰrads, *ked, *kʰrad, *ɡrad, *kad, *ɡad
偈 *ɡrads, *ɡrad
猲 *kʰob, *qʰaːd, *qʰad
葛 *kaːd
輵 *kaːd
獦 *klaːd, *rab
渴 *kʰaːd, *ɡrad
嵑 *kʰaːd
暍 *qʰaːd, *qad
曷 *ɡaːd
褐 *ɡaːd
鶡 *ɡaːd
毼 *ɡaːd
蝎 *ɡaːd
鞨 *ɡaːd, *ɢljad
遏 *qaːd
齃 *qaːd
堨 *qaːd
擖 *kʰreːd, *kraːd, *r'aːb
楬 *kʰraːd, *ɡrad, *ɡad
朅 *kʰrad
藒 *kʰrad
竭 *ɡrad, *ɡad
碣 *ɡrad, *ɡad
羯 *kad
鍻 *kad
歇 *qʰad
蠍 *qʰad
謁 *qad

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *qraːds, *qʰoːb, *qʰaːd) : semantic 口 + phonetic 曷 ‎(OC *ɡaːd).

Pronunciation 1

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 喝 (喝酒)
Mandarin Beijing /xɤ⁵⁵/
Harbin /xɤ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /xɤ²¹/
Jinan /xə²¹³/
Qingdao /xa⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /xɤ²⁴/
Xi'an /xuo²¹/
Xining /xu⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /xə¹³/
Lanzhou /xə¹³/
Ürümqi /xɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /xuo²¹³/
Chengdu /xo⁵⁵/
Guiyang /xo⁵⁵/
Kunming /xo⁴⁴/
Nanjing /xoʔ⁵/
Hefei /xɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /xaʔ²/
Pingyao /xʌʔ¹³/
Hohhot /xaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /həʔ⁵/
/haʔ⁵/
Suzhou /həʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /hɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /ha²¹³/
Hui Shexian /xɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi /xə⁵/
Xiang Changsha /xo²⁴/
Xiangtan /ho²⁴/
Gan Nanchang
Hakka Meixian /hot̚¹/
Taoyuan /hot̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɔt̚³/
Nanning /hɔt̚³³/
Hong Kong /hɔt̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hap̚³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /hak̚²/
Haikou (Min Nan)
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 喝
Reading # 2/3
No. 5020
Phonetic
component		 曷
Rime
group		 盍
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 欱
Old
Chinese		 /*qʰoːb/
Notes 近代訓讀爲欱

Definitions

喝

  1. to drink
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 喝 (“to drink”)
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 飲
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 喝
Mandarin Beijing 喝
Taiwan 喝
Jinan 喝
Xi'an 喝
Wuhan 喝、呵、汩
Chengdu 吃、呵
Yangzhou 喝、吃
Hefei 喝
Cantonese Guangzhou 飲、呷
Hong Kong 飲、呷
Taishan 飲
Yangjiang 呷、吃
Gan Nanchang 喫
Hakka Meixian 食、啜
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 食、啉、飲
Liudui (S. Sixian) 食、啉、飲
Hsinchu (Hailu) 食、啉、飲
Dongshi (Dabu) 食、啉、飲
Zhuolan (Raoping) 食、啉、飲
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 啉、食
Jin Taiyuan 喝
Min Bei Jian'ou 啜、食
Min Dong Fuzhou 啜
Min Nan Quanzhou 啉、食、哈
Xiamen 啉、食、哈
Zhangzhou 啉、食
Taipei 啉
Kaohsiung 啉
Tainan 啉、呵、食、灌
Taichung 啉
Yilan 啉、呵、食
Lukang 啉
Sanxia 啉
Kinmen 啉
Magong 食、啉
Hsinchu 啉、哈
Malaysia 啉
Chaozhou 食、啉
Wu Suzhou 吃、呷、呼
Wenzhou 呷、吃
Xiang Changsha 吃
Shuangfeng 吃、呵

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 喝 (喝彩)
Mandarin Beijing /xɤ⁵¹/
Harbin /xɤ⁵³/
Tianjin /xɤ⁵³/
Jinan /xə²¹³/
Qingdao /xə⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /xɤ²⁴/
Xi'an /xuo²¹/
Xining /xu⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /xə¹³/
Lanzhou /xə⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /xɤ²¹³/
Wuhan /xuo²¹³/
Chengdu /xo⁵⁵/
Guiyang /xo²¹/
Kunming /xo⁴⁴/
Nanjing /xoʔ⁵/
Hefei /xɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /xaʔ²/
Pingyao
Hohhot /xaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /həʔ⁵/
/haʔ⁵/
Suzhou /həʔ⁵/
Hangzhou /hɑʔ⁵/
Wenzhou /hø²¹³/
Hui Shexian /xɔʔ²¹/
Tunxi /xə⁵/
Xiang Changsha /xo²⁴/
Xiangtan /ho²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /hɵʔ⁵/
Hakka Meixian /hot̚¹/
Taoyuan /hot̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /hɔt̚³/
Nanning /hɔt̚³³/
Hong Kong /hɔt̚³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /hat̚³²/
/huaʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /hɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /xɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /huaʔ²/
/uaʔ²/
Haikou (Min Nan) /xo⁵⁵/
/hua⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 喝 喝
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 夬 (29) 曷 (63)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division (等) II I
Fanqie 於犗切 許葛切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ʔˠaiH/ /hɑt̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ʔᵚaiH/ /hɑt̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ʔaiH/ /xɑt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ʔaɨjsH/ /hat̚/
Li
Rong		 /ʔaiH/ /xɑt̚/
Wang
Li		 /æiH/ /xɑt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ʔaiH/ /xɑt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yè he
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 喝 喝
Reading # 1/3 3/3
No. 5015 5027
Phonetic
component		 曷 曷
Rime
group		 祭 月
Rime
subdivision		 1 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 喝 䫘
Old
Chinese		 /*qraːds/ /*qʰaːd/

Definitions

喝

  1. to shout; to call out

Compounds

Pronunciation 3

Definitions

喝

  1. Alternative form of 嗬 (hē, “hey”).

Japanese

Kanji

喝

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

Interjection

喝 ‎(hiragana かつ, romaji katsu)

  1. (Buddhism) an interjecting said by Zen Buddhist masters to scold their students

Noun

喝 ‎(hiragana かつ, romaji katsu)

  1. a loud exclamation or scolding

References

Korean

Hanja

喝 • ‎(gal, ae) (hangeul 갈, 애, McCune-Reischauer kal, ae)

  1. loud voice
  2. to call out, yell, shout
  3. to scold

Compounds

  • 喝采 ‎(갈채, galchae, “applause”)
  • 喝取 ‎(갈취, galchwi, “blackmailing”)
  • 喝破 ‎(갈파, galpa, “proclamation”)

Vietnamese

Han character

喝 (hát, ạc, hét, hết, hít, ặc, kệ)

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