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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

饮用

yǐnyòng

drink

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

drink

02

drinking or drinkable (water)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 饮用 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 饮用 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

绿水不适合饮用。lǜ shuǐ bú shì hé yǐn yòng。

Green water is not good for drinking.

欧洲人每年平均饮用十二点五公升的纯酒精。ōu zhōu rén měi nián píng jūn yǐn yòng shí èr diǎn wǔ gōng shēng de chún jiǔ jīng。

Europeans drink, on average, 12.5 liters of pure alcohol per year.

永远不要过量饮用咖啡或茶。yǒng yuǎn bú yào guò liàng yǐn yòng kā fēi huò chá。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 饮用.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 饮用.

Directly before

  • 过量饮用1
  • 平均饮用1
  • 适合饮用1

Directly after

  • 饮用咖啡1
  • 饮用十二点1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 饮用

What does 饮用 mean in Chinese?

饮用 (yǐnyòng) means drink.

How do you pronounce 饮用?

饮用 is pronounced yǐnyòng.

Is 饮用 an HSK word?

饮用 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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