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Hanzi Character Search: 喝

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喝
drink; shout, call out
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 9 Total Strokes 12
Mandarin reading Cantonese reading hot3
Japanese on reading katsu ai Japanese kun reading shikaru
Korean reading kal ay Vietnamese reading hát

CEDICT Entries:

   [ guà ]    (coll.) to get drunk, to get hammered
   [ duàn piàn ]    to get blackout drunk (slang)
   [ liáng shuǐ doū saī ]    (coll.) to be out of luck
西   [ beǐ fēng ]    lit. drink the northwest wind (idiom); cold and hungry
⇒    [ sān shang meí shuǐ ]    lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom), fig. everybody's business is nobody's business, (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)
⇒    [ chī ]    to go dining, wining, whoring and gambling, to lead a life of dissipation
⇒    [ chī wán ]    to eat, drink and be merry (idiom), to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
⇒    [ laí ]    to call to come and shout to go (idiom); to yell orders, always bossing people around
⇒    [ niú shuǐ qiǎng àn toú ]    lit. to try to make an ox drink by forcing its head down to the water (idiom), fig. to try to impose one's will on sb
⇒    [ niú shuǐ nán àn ]    (idiom) you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink
⇒    [ kaī luó daò ]    to clear a street by banging gongs and shouting loudly (idiom)
⇒    [ nán ]    unpleasant to drink

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