喝

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

喝 U+FA36, 喝
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA36
← 卑
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 嘆 →
喝 U+FA78, 喝
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-FA78
← 勺
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 啕 →

Translingual

Stroke order
12 strokes
Japanese 喝
Simplified 喝
Traditional 喝

Alternative forms

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

Han character

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

References

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

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 喝
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
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／形声, OC *qraːds, *qʰoːb, *qʰaːd) : semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 曷 (OC *ɡaːd).

Etymology 1

trad. 喝
simp. # 喝
alternative forms 欱

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hwap (“to drink”). Cognate to 噏 (OC *qʰrub, “to drink”) and 呷 (OC *qʰraːb, “to drink”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • hoah - vernacular;
  • hat - literary.
  • 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 (Hokkien) /hap̚³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /hak̚²/
Haikou (Hainanese)
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
喝

Definitions

喝

  1. (Standard Written Chinese, Mandarin, Jin) 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
Harbin 喝
Yantai (Muping) 喝
Jinan 喝
Luoyang 喝
Wanrong 喝
Xi'an 喝
Yinchuan 喝
Lanzhou 喝
Xining 喝
Ürümqi 喝
Wuhan 喝, 呵, 汩
Chengdu 吃, 喝
Guiyang 吃, 喝, 汩
Guilin 喝
Liuzhou 吃, 喝
Xuzhou 喝, 吃
Yangzhou 吃, 喝
Nanjing 吃, 喝
Hefei 喝
Malaysia 喝
Singapore 喝
Olginsky (Mikhaylovka) 喝
Cantonese Guangzhou 飲, 呷
Hong Kong 飲, 呷
Hong Kong (Kam Tin Weitou) 飲
Macau 飲
Guangzhou (Panyu) 飲
Guangzhou (Huashan, Huadu) 飲
Guangzhou (Conghua) 飲
Guangzhou (Zengcheng) 飲
Foshan 飲
Foshan (Shatou, Nanhai) 飲
Foshan (Shunde) 飲
Foshan (Sanshui) 飲
Foshan (Mingcheng, Gaoming) 飲
Zhongshan (Shiqi) 飲
Zhuhai (Qianshan) 飲
Zhuhai (Doumen, Shangheng Tanka) 飲
Zhuhai (Doumen) 飲
Jiangmen (Baisha) 飲
Jiangmen (Xinhui) 飲
Taishan 飲
Kaiping (Chikan) 飲
Enping (Niujiang) 飲
Heshan (Yayao) 飲
Dongguan 飲, 食1, 呷
Shenzhen (Shajing, Bao'an) 飲
Yangjiang 呷, 吃
Wuzhou 飲
Hepu (Lianzhou) 吃
Hepu (Shatian) 飲
Qinzhou 飲
Qinzhou (Xiniujiao) 飲
Beihai 食1
Beihai (Nankang) 飲
Beihai (Yingpan) 飲
Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô) 飲
Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà) 飲
Fangchenggang (Fangcheng) 飲, 食1
Danzhou 吃
Kuala Lumpur (Guangfu) 飲
Penang (Guangfu) 飲
Singapore (Guangfu) 飲
Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu) 飲
Móng Cái 飲
Gan Nanchang 吃
Lichuan 吃
Pingxiang 吃
Hakka Meixian 食1, 啉, 飲, 啜
Xingning 食1
Huizhou (Huicheng Bendihua) 飲
Huiyang 食1
Huidong (Daling) 食1
Dongguan (Qingxi) 食1
Shenzhen (Shatoujiao) 食1
Zhongshan (Nanlang Heshui) 食1, 飲
Wuhua (Huacheng) 食1
Wuhua (Meilin) 食1
Heyuan (Bendihua) 食1
Shaoguan (Qujiang) 食1
Lianshan (Xiaosanjiang) 食1
Conghua (Lütian) 飲
Jiexi 食1
Changting 食1
Wuping 食1
Wuping (Pingyu) 食1
Liancheng 食1
Ninghua 食1
Yudu 食1
Ruijin 食1
Shicheng 食1
Shangyou (Shexi) 食1
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 食1, 啉, 飲
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 食1, 啉, 飲
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 食1, 啉, 飲
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 食1, 啉, 飲
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 食1, 啉, 飲
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 啉, 食1
Hong Kong 食1
Luchuan 食1
Kuching (Hepo) 食1, 飲, 啉
Sungai Tapang, Batu Kawa (Hepo) 食1
Huizhou Jixi 吃
Jin Taiyuan 喝
Xinzhou 喝
Northern Min Jian'ou 啜, 饁
Eastern Min Fuzhou 啜, 食3
Singapore (Fuqing) 食3
Sitiawan (Gutian) 食3
Southern Min Xiamen 啉, 食3, 哈 alcohol, 啜 usually soup
Xiamen (Tong'an) 啉
Quanzhou 啉, 食3, 哈 alcohol, 啜 usually soup
Jinjiang 啉
Zhangzhou 啉, 食3, 啜 usually soup
Zhao'an 食3, 啉
Taipei 啉
New Taipei (Sanxia) 啉
Kaohsiung 啉
Yilan 啉, 哈, 食3
Changhua (Lukang) 啉
Taichung 啉
Tainan 啉, 哈, 食3, 灌
Hsinchu 啉, 哈
Kinmen 啉
Penghu (Magong) 食3, 啉
Penang (Hokkien) 啉
Singapore (Hokkien) 啉
Manila (Hokkien) 啉
Medan (Hokkien) 啉
Chaozhou 食3, 啉
Shantou 食3, 啉
Shantou (Chenghai) 食3, 啉
Jieyang 食3, 啉
Haifeng 食3
Singapore (Teochew) 食3
Batam (Teochew) 食3
Pontianak (Teochew) 食3, 啉
Leizhou 啜, 食3
Wenchang 啜, 食3
Haikou 啜, 食3
Qionghai 啜, 食3
Singapore (Hainanese) 食3, 啜
Zhongshan Min Shaxi (Longdu) 飲
Sanxiang 飲
Southern Pinghua Nanning (Tingzi) 飲, 吃, 呷
Wu Shanghai 吃, 呷, 呼
Shanghai (Chongming) 吃
Suzhou 吃, 呷, 呼
Danyang 吃
Hangzhou 吃
Hangzhou (Yuhang) 吃
Ningbo 吃
Wenzhou 呷, 吃
Jinhua 吃, 呷
Xiang Changsha 吃
Loudi 吃
Shuangfeng 吃, 呵
Descendants
  • Wutunhua: xhe

Compounds

Etymology 2

trad. 喝
simp. # 喝

Pronunciation

Note:
  • hoah/hòa - vernacular (“to shout; to scold loudly; to brag”);
  • hat - literary.
Note: duah4 - 俗音.
  • 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 (Hokkien) /hat̚³²/
/huaʔ³²/
Fuzhou (Eastern Min) /hɑʔ²³/
Jian'ou (Northern Min) /xɔ²⁴/
Shantou (Teochew) /huaʔ²/
/uaʔ²/
Haikou (Hainanese) /xo⁵⁵/
/hua⁵⁵/
Rime
Character 喝
Reading # 2/2
Initial (聲) 曉 (32)
Final (韻) 寒 (63)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 許葛切
Baxter xat
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/hɑt̚/
Pan
Wuyun 		/hɑt̚/
Shao
Rongfen 		/xɑt̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/hat̚/
Li
Rong 		/xɑt̚/
Wang
Li 		/xɑt̚/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/xɑt̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		he
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		hot3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 喝
Reading # 3/3
No. 5027
Phonetic
component 		曷
Rime
group 		月
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		䫘
Old
Chinese 		/*qʰaːd/

Definitions

喝

  1. to shout; to call out
  2. (Cantonese, transitive) to shout at someone
  3. (Hokkien) to scold loudly
  4. (Zhangzhou Hokkien) to brag; to boast; to bluff
Synonyms
Dialectal synonyms of 喊 (“to shout; to yell”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 喊
Mandarin Beijing 喊, 嚷
Taiwan 喊
Harbin 喊, 喊呼
Jinan 喊
Xi'an 喊, 喊叫
Yinchuan 喊
Ürümqi 喊
Wuhan 喊, 𠵫
Chengdu 喊
Guilin 喊
Liuzhou 喊
Xuzhou 喊
Yangzhou 喊
Nanjing 喊
Hefei 叫
Singapore 喊
Cantonese Guangzhou 叫, 嗌
Hong Kong 嗌, 叫
Dongguan 喊
Yangjiang 喊
Beihai 喊
Beihai (Qiaogang - Cô Tô) 喊
Beihai (Qiaogang - Cát Bà) 喊
Fangchenggang (Fangcheng) 喊
Singapore (Guangfu) 嗌
Ho Chi Minh City (Guangfu) 叫
Móng Cái 喊
Gan Nanchang 喊
Hakka Meixian 喊
Zijin 喊
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 喊
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 喊
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 喊
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 喊
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 喊
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 喊
Jin Taiyuan 喊, 叫喊
Northern Min Jian'ou 喊
Eastern Min Fuzhou 吿
Southern Min Xiamen 喝
Quanzhou 喝
Jinjiang 喝
Zhangzhou 喝
Taipei 咻, 喝
New Taipei (Sanxia) 喝
Kaohsiung 咻, 喝
Yilan 喝
Changhua (Lukang) 喝
Taichung 喝
Tainan 咻, 喝
Hsinchu 喝
Kinmen 喝
Penghu (Magong) 喝
Penang (Hokkien) 嚷
Singapore (Hokkien) 喝
Manila (Hokkien) 喝
Chaozhou 喊
Shantou 喊, 叱
Singapore (Teochew) 喝
Wu Shanghai 喊, 叫
Suzhou 喊
Danyang 喊
Ningbo 嘶, 叫
Wenzhou 叫
Xiang Changsha 喊
Shuangfeng 喊
  • (to scold loudly):
  • (to brag):
Dialectal synonyms of 說大話 (“to brag; to boast; to talk big”)
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 說大話, 誇口, 吹噓, 誇口, 矜人, 自誇, 自詡
Mandarin Taiwan 吹大炮
Harbin 吹大氣兒, 吹牛屄, 吹呼, 吹著嘮, 誇嘴, 吹
Yantai (Muping) 吹牛屄, 吹牛兒, 吹
Luoyang 吹牛屄
Wanrong 吹牛, 吹
Xi'an 吹牛屄, 吹牛
Yinchuan 吹牛屄
Xining 斬大話
Guiyang 衝殼子, 吹殼子, 吹牛殼, 衝牛殼
Xuzhou 吹牛屄
Yangzhou 吹牛
Nanjing 吹牛, 吹牛屄, 吹
Singapore 吹牛, 說大話
Cantonese Guangzhou 講大話, 放葫蘆, 吹牛觱, 車大炮, 吹
Hong Kong 車大炮, 吹, 吹水
Taishan 吹牛, 車大炮
Dongguan 放葫蘆
Gan Nanchang 吹牛屄
Lichuan 吹膨兒
Pingxiang 吹蒙子
Hakka Meixian 車大炮
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 吹牛, 膨風, 嗙雞胲, 講天缺, 落下頷, 屙痢屙肚
Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian) 吹牛, 膨風, 嗙雞胲, 講天缺, 歕雞胲, 嗙虎膦
Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu) 吹牛, 膨風, 嗙雞胲, 講天缺, 落下頷, 屙痢屙肚
Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu) 吹牛, 膨風, 嗙雞胲, 講天缺, 落下頷, 屙屙膿膿
Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping) 膨風, 嗙雞胲, 講天缺, 落下頷, 屙痢屙肚
Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an) 膨風, 歕雞胲, 臭彈, 落下頷, 屙膿屙血
Huizhou Jixi 吹牛屄, 吹卵脬, 吹
Jin Taiyuan 吹牛屄
Xinzhou 吹達, 吹牛屄
Eastern Min Fuzhou 誇喙
Southern Min Xiamen 風龜, 風神, 風龜神, 放風龜, 相空, 歕風, 歕雞胿, 放空, 膨風, 喝仙
Quanzhou 風龜, 風神, 風龜神, 放風球, 講空, 歕風, 放空, 膨風, 喝仙
Zhangzhou 風龜, 風神, 風龜神, 相空, 練扇空, 歕風, 歕雞胿, 放空, 膨風, 喝仙, 喝
Taipei 歕雞胿
New Taipei (Sanxia) 歕雞胿
Kaohsiung 臭彈, 歕雞胿
Yilan 臭彈, 歕雞胿
Changhua (Lukang) 臭彈
Taichung 歕雞胿, 烏白講
Tainan 臭彈, 歕雞胿, 膨風, 畫虎𡳞, 放臭屁 GT, 放屁 GT, 講大聲話 GT
Hsinchu 歕雞胿, 膨風
Kinmen 歕雞胿
Penghu (Magong) 歕雞胿
Penang (Hokkien) 好臉
Singapore (Hokkien) 好臉
Manila (Hokkien) 喝仙, 放風
Shantou 呾大話, 車大炮, 拉空, 拉誧
Singapore (Teochew) 好臉
Wu Shanghai 吹牛屄, 吹牛三
Shanghai (Chongming) 吹牛屄
Suzhou 吹牛屄, 吹牛三, 牛屄
Danyang 吹牛屄
Hangzhou 吹牛屄
Ningbo 吹牛屄, 扯蛋, 扯老蛋, 講大話
Xiang Loudi 吹牛皮
Note GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Compounds

Etymology 3

trad. 喝
simp. # 喝
alternative forms 𡁁

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 喝
Reading # 1/2
Initial (聲) 影 (34)
Final (韻) 夬 (29)
Tone (調) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 於犗切
Baxter 'aejH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/ʔˠaiH/
Pan
Wuyun 		/ʔᵚaiH/
Shao
Rongfen 		/ʔaiH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/ʔaɨjsH/
Li
Rong 		/ʔaiH/
Wang
Li 		/æiH/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ʔaiH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		yè
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		aai3
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 喝
Reading # 1/3
No. 5015
Phonetic
component 		曷
Rime
group 		祭
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		喝
Old
Chinese 		/*qraːds/

Definitions

喝

  1. † (of one's voice) hoarse

Compounds

Etymology 4

trad. 喝
simp. # 喝

Pronunciation

Definitions

喝

  1. Alternative form of 嗬 (“hey”)

Etymology 5

trad. 喝
simp. # 喝

Pronunciation

Definitions

喝

  1. (Quanzhou Hokkien) so

Synonyms

Etymology 6

For pronunciation and definitions of 喝 – see 𡁁 (“sound”).
(This character is a variant form of 𡁁).

Japanese

Shinjitai 喝
Kyūjitai
喝
喝
or
喝+︀?
喝󠄁
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Kanji

喝

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 喝)

Readings

Compounds

Interjection

喝(かつ) • (katsu) 

  1. (Buddhism) an interjection uttered by Zen Buddhist masters to scold their students

Noun

喝(かつ) • (katsu) 

  1. a loud exclamation or scolding

References

  1. ^ “喝”, in 漢字ぺディア (Kanjipedia)‎ (in Japanese), 日本漢字能力検定協会, 2015–2024

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

Vietnamese

Han character

喝: Hán Nôm readings: hát, ạc, hét, hết, hít, ặc, kệ, kháo, ha

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