• to drink;

Etymology

A phono-semantic compound:

食 (“to eat, food”) - provides the semantic element;

欠 (heum/eum, “to yawn, gape”) - provides the phonetic element.

Historically also had the causative meaning “to make (someone) drink, to give to drink.”

Usage in Korean

Appears in classical and literary contexts more than in modern colloquial speech.

Common compounds:

飮食 (음식) - food and drink;

飮酒 (음주) - drinking alcohol;

飮水 (음수) - drinking water;

飮馬 (음마) - watering horses (lit. “give horses to drink”).

Words that derived from

마실
masil
eum
Kangxi radical:184, + 4
Strokes:13
Unicode:U+98EE
Cangjie input:
  • 人卜弓人 (OYNO)
  • 人尸弓人 (OSNO)
Composition:
  • ⿰ 𩙿 欠

Neighboring characters in the dictionary

References

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