狂饮 (kuáng yǐn) — to drink heavily, to binge drink

Definition

verb

to drink heavilyto binge drink

狂饮。
Tā jīng cháng zài jù huì shàng kuáng yǐn.
He often binge drinks at parties.
狂饮。
Cháng qī kuáng yǐn huì sǔn hài jiàn kāng.
Long-term heavy drinking damages your health.
狂饮。
Tā yīn wèi kuáng yǐn guò dù bèi sòng jìn le yī yuàn.
He was sent to the hospital because of excessive binge drinking.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

狂 gives a wild, excessive sense, and 饮 is drink, so the sense is drinking heavily.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

犭Written in full as犬quǎndog

Sound part声符shēngfú

㞷

㞷㞷狂kuáng

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

狂 pairs 犭 (dog) with 㞷, which gives the sound; 㞷 is an old form of a character meaning 'to go'.

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 飲; 饮 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 飲 drew a person bending over a bottle to drink, with a mouth and droplets; this picture is about 飲, not the simplified 饮.

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