饮料
yǐnliào · HSK 5
beverage
🥤 饮料 = 饮 (drink) + 料 (material) — drinkable material
饮 means to drink (the verb), and 料 means material or ingredient. Together they form the noun for any drinkable substance — a beverage. Compare 材料 (cái liào, raw material) for the same 料 sense.
料 — rice 米 + dipper 斗
料 combines 米 (rice/grain) with 斗 (a measuring dipper), depicting the act of measuring out grain. From this concrete sense it extended to 'to measure, estimate, anticipate' and to 'materials' (things measured out for use), as in 材料 'materials' and 预料 'to anticipate'.