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喝 — to drink

Pinyin
hē · hè
Strokes
12
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — hē, hè — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 喝: 12 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

喝 — 12 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 喝 in the HSK syllabus: 3

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 喝hēto drinkHSK 1
  2. 吃喝玩乐chī-hē-wán-lèto eat, drink, play and be merryHSK 7–9
  3. 喝彩hècǎito acclaim; to cheerHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.