Today’s second #kanji is #飲, which is made of #しょくへん(飠) and 欠. 飲 was originally written as 㱃 (without しょくへん). 欠 has a meaning of “yawning” or “having a mouth wide open” so the meaning of “to drink” makes sense.
Meaning: to drink, to swallow
飲食店(インショクテン): a restaurant, an eating house, a place to eat (and drink)
飲酒(インシュ): drinking alcohol, boozing
飲料水(インリョウスイ): drinking water, water to drink, “Fit to Drink”
誤飲(ゴイン): swallowing … accidentally, accidental ingestion
暴飲暴食(ボウインボウショク)
飲む(のむ): to drink, to swallow; to smoke; to suppress; to accept; to overpower
飲み物(のみもの): a drink, something to drink, a beverage
飲み屋(のみや): a drinking place, a bar, a pub
飲み薬(のみぐすり): a medicine (for internal use), a medicine taken orally
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