Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N4

969 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 12

Meaning: drink, smoke, take

Kunyomi: の.む -の.み

Onyomi: イン オン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: しょくへん

Meaning: eat, food

Strokes: 8

Examples

Examples with audio

食店(いんしょくてん)   restaurant

酒運転(いんしゅうんてん)   drunk driving

料水(いんりょうすい)   drinking water

む(のむ)   drink

み屋(のみや)   bar

み物(のみもの)   beverage

Onyomi Examples

イン drinking (sometimes esp. alcohol), drink, drinking party

インシュ drinking alcohol

ボウイン heavy drinking

アイイン drinking habitually, being fond of (a drink)

インショク food and drink, eating and drinking

オンジュ consumption of alcohol (as prohibited by one of the Buddhist precepts), Buddhist precept prohibiting the consumption of alcohol

Kunyomi Examples

のむ to drink, to gulp, to swallow, to take (medicine), to smoke (tobacco), to engulf, to overwhelm, to keep down, to suppress, to accept (e.g. demand, condition), to make light of, to conceal

む打つ買う のむうつかう drinking, gambling, and buying women in prostitution