U+996E "饮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+996E "饮" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that represents the concept of drinking, particularly liquids such as water, tea, or alcohol. It is a simplified form of the traditional character "飲," and is widely used in modern Mandarin Chinese, appearing in common words like "饮水" meaning drinking water or "饮料" meaning beverage. The character combines the radical "飠" (food or eat) with a phonetic component, reflecting its original meaning related to consuming liquid refreshment. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) unified ideographs block, it is used across multiple East Asian languages with similar meanings.