HSK 3 · Food

饮料 yǐnliào “beverage” in Chinese

Traditional 飲料

What 饮料 means

  1. beverage
  2. drink

How to say 饮料

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale饮yǐn3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale料liào4th tone, falling

饮料 in a sentence

  1. 你最喜欢的饮料是什么？

    Nǐ zuì xǐhuan de yǐnliào shì shénme?

    What’s your favourite drink?

    Sentence #2186246 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我不喜欢喝太甜的饮料。

    Wǒ bù xǐhuan hē tài tián de yǐnliào.

    I don’t like drinks that are too sweet.

    Sentence #10367140 from Tatoeba

  3. 我可以为你调杯热饮料吗？

    Wǒ kěyǐ wèi nǐ tiáo bēi rè yǐnliào ma?

    Can I make you a hot drink?

    Sentence #3383262 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 饮料 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 饮 (yǐn) with each of its parts in a different colour
饮yǐnto drink
  • 饣eat form of 食 · shíMeaning part
  • 欠yawn · qiànSound part

饣 hints at the meaning (eat); 欠 (qiàn) hints at the sound. Compare it with yǐn.

The character 料 (liào) with each of its parts in a different colour
料liàomaterial
  • 米rice · mǐ
  • 斗dipper · dǒu

Memory aidRice 米 measured with a dipper 斗: material, to estimate.

How to write 饮料

饮 7 strokes · 料 10 strokes

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饮料 (yǐnliào) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 饮料 (yǐnliào). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 饮料

Words with 饮

饮食yǐnshí · diet

Words with 料

材料cáiliào · (raw) material塑料袋sùliàodài · plastic bag资料zīliào · material原料yuánliào · raw material调料tiáoliào · seasoning意料yìliào · expectation预料yùliào · to expect不料búliào · unexpectedly

More words: Food & Drink

面包miànbāo · bread啤酒píjiǔ · beer甜tián · sweet香蕉xiāngjiāo · banana鸡jī · chicken外卖wàimài · takeaway (food)方便面fāngbiànmiàn · instant noodles包子bāozi · bao (steamed stuffed bun)

FAQs

饮料 (yǐnliào) means “beverage” or “drink”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it yǐnliào: yǐn with a 3rd tone, then liào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 饮料 is written 飲料. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yinliao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 饮料 from the suggestions. Typing yinliao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
饮料 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.