喫

音読おんよみ: キツ

訓読くんよみ: の-む

画数かくすう: 12

部首ぶしゅ: くちへん(口)

Meaning

Consume / Drink / Smoke / Receive (suffer, undergo)

  • 喫茶きっさ — tea/coffee (drinks) service; a café
  • 喫煙きつえん — smoking
  • 満喫まんきつ — to fully enjoy; to have one’s fill
  • 喫水きっすい — draft of a ship (waterline depth)
  • きっする — to receive / undergo / suffer (formal)

With the mouth radical on the left, centers on what enters the mouth — drinking or inhaling. The right side gives the sound. From “to drink” it extends to “to smoke” and even “to receive/undergo,” as in 満喫 “to have one’s fill.”

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