Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

喫: consume, eat

Also: drink, smoke, receive (a blow)

JLPT N212 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

口 carries the meaning · 契 gives the sound

12 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

キツkitsu · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 喫茶店きっさてんcoffee shop
  • 喫煙するきつえんするsmoke, have a smoke
  • 満喫するまんきつするhave enough of fully enjoy
  • 喫煙きつえん
  • 満喫まんきつ
  • 喫茶きっさtea drinking
  • 喫するきっするto eat; to drink; to smoke

Also read のむ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Open your mouth wide and what do you see? A simple, sturdy square!”
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繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
口

Also built on mouth (口)

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Also read キツ

4 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSimplified 吃 · traditional, as in Japanese · chī

Japan keeps the traditional form 喫; mainland China simplifies it to 吃.

Simplified
吃 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
喫 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin chī most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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