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饮 — to drink

Pinyin
yǐn · yìn
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
required

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

How to write 饮: 7 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. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.

饮 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 饮

Words with 饮 in the HSK syllabus: 4

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. 饮料yǐnliàodrink; beverageHSK 3
  2. 餐饮cānyǐnfood and beverage; catering; repastHSK 5
  3. 饮食yǐnshíeating and drinking; food and drink; dietHSK 5
  4. 饮用水yǐnyòngshuǐdrinking water; potable waterHSK 6

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.