喝
hē
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
To drink — water, tea, alcohol or any other liquid. The drink follows the verb: 喝水 'drink water', 喝茶 'drink tea', 喝酒 'drink alcohol'. Soup is drunk, not eaten, in Chinese: 喝汤.
Uống: uống nước, trà, rượu hay bất kỳ thức uống nào. Thứ được uống đặt ngay sau động từ: 喝水 (uống nước), 喝茶 (uống trà), 喝酒 (uống rượu). Canh thì tiếng Trung cũng “uống” chứ không “ăn”: 喝汤.
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “喝” mean?
To drink — water, tea, alcohol or any other liquid. The drink follows the verb: 喝水 'drink water', 喝茶 'drink tea', 喝酒 'drink alcohol'. Soup is drunk, not eaten, in Chinese: 喝汤.
Is “喝” formal or informal?
喝 is generally neutral.