| | to use; to make use of; to employ / (coverb) with; using / to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions) / usefulness; utility / (bound form) expense; outlay / (courteous) to eat; to drink / (literary) hence; therefore | HSK 1 |
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| | to eat; to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate; to destroy / to absorb / to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc) | HSK 1 |
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| | to have a meal / to eat / to make a living | HSK 1 |
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| | fragrant / sweet smelling / aromatic / savory or appetizing / (to eat) with relish / (of sleep) sound / perfume or spice / joss or incense stick / CL: 根 | HSK 3 |
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| | to eat till full / satisfied | HSK 2 |
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| | eating and drinking / food and drink; diet | HSK 5 |
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| | lit. to eat, drink, play and be merry (idiom) / fig. to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure | HSK 7-9 |
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| | vegetarian food / to eat a vegetarian diet | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to eat raw | |
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| | meal / to eat / classifier for meals | HSK 6 |
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| | way of eating / how something is eaten / how a dish is prepared / the way a dish is to be cooked | |
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| | (coll.) to eat grilled skewers | |
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| | to finish eating | |
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| | to eat one's fill | |
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| | to eat a vegetarian diet | |
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| | to eat a meal | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. eating away next year's food in advance / fig. to dip into the next month's check / live now, pay later | |
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| | to eat meat after having maintained a vegetarian diet / (fig.) to do sth as a novel experience | |
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| | lit. to eat but finely ground grain and finely chopped meat (idiom, from Analects) / fig. to be fastidious about one's food | |
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| | to place (food) on the table / to sit down to eat (at the dining table) | |
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| | to eat; to consume / edible | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to eat in (at the restaurant) (contrasted with 外帶|外带) / (restaurant) dine-in service | |
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| | to eat and drink / food and drink | |
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| | to be full (after eating) | |
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| | lit. to be hardly worth eating, but it would still be a pity to discard it (idiom) / fig. some things have little to no value, yet one is still reluctant to part with them | |
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| | to eat out / food brought in from outside; food not purchased within the premises | |
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| | to eat in (at a restaurant) (Tw) / to take the medicine orally | |
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| | (Tw) all-you-can-eat (food) / (fig.) unlimited usage (digital services etc) | |
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| | to eat and drink as much as one likes / to make a pig of oneself | |
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| | unable to get anything to eat / to miss a meal | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to consume (food or drink); to eat; to drink | |
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| | to eat and drink extravagantly / to binge | |
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| | to graze; to eat grass | |
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| | (eat sth) with (sth else) / taking advantage of; using | |
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| | dog-eat-dog / dogfight | |
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| | eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw) | |
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| | to eat on the sly / to pilfer food / to be unfaithful | |
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| | to put sth on the bottom / to eat sth to tide oneself over until mealtime / to lay the foundation / to come last in the rankings | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. to eat in the open air and sleep outdoors (idiom) / fig. to rough it | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to eat without paying / to freeload | |
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| | to start / to set in motion / to move / to march / to dig in (eating) / to tuck in (eating) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (literary) to urge sb (to eat or drink) | |
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| | to be fond of eating; to be gluttonous | |
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| | lit. to grow fat eating one's words (idiom) / fig. not to live up to one's promises | |
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| | lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom) / fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance | |
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| | lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom) / fig. to live well | |
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| | to eat out / to eat at a restaurant | |
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| | hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom) / one just has to be patient / haste will ruin everything | |
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| | to eat individual meals (rather than taking one's food from plates served to everyone at the table) | |
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| | food and lodging / to stay (at some place) and eat meals (there) | |
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| | to abstain from eating meat / to be a vegetarian | |
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| | to eat / food / animal feed / eclipse | |
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| | sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them | |
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| | lit. not eating for fear of choking (idiom); fig. to cut off one's nose to spite one's face / to avoid sth essential because of a slight risk | |
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| | to eat too much / to binge | |
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| | to eat / to have a meal | |
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| | (slang) craving to eat; urge to pig out | |
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| | (idiom) to eat with great relish; to feast on (sth) | |
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| | to satisfy rival demands (idiom) / to get the best of both worlds / to have it both ways / to have one's cake and eat it too | |
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| | eating champion | |
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| | to eat up / to consume | |
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| | to fast / to abstain from eating / to forbid the eating of (certain foods) / a fast | |
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| | lit. to eat without tasting the food / worried or downhearted (idiom) | |
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| | to eat one's fill | |
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| | if a woman likes to eat sour during pregnancy, she will have a boy; if she likes to eat spicy, she will have a girl (idiom) | |
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| | to upset (one's stomach) by eating bad food or overeating | |
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| | to lay a foundation (also fig.) / to make a first sketch / to eat sth before drinking / to apply an undercoat | |
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| | to be sick of eating (sth); to be tired of eating (sth) | |
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| | mukbang, genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience | |
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| | to become sick of a food after eating it too much | |
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| | lit. to eat from government coffers / to serve as a government employee / to live off government money | |
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| | taking or eating more than one's due (idiom); greedy and selfish | |
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| | to gather together as with a rake / to shovel food into one's mouth; to eat fast | |
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| | to eat one's fill / to be full | |
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| | (Cantonese) to eat hot pot / hot pot | |
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| | Illness enters by the mouth (idiom). Mind what you eat! / fig. A loose tongue may cause a lot of trouble. | |
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| | lit. to see whether it's a mule or a horse, take it out for a walk (idiom) / fig. the proof of the pudding is in the eating / to show what one is made of | |
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| | to eat and drink gluttonously / to pig out | |
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| | to eat one's own fruit (idiom); fig. suffering the consequences of one's own action / to reap what one has sown | |
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| | lit. cannot rest or eat in peace (idiom) / fig. extremely worried and troubled | |
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| | to eat three square meals a day and do no work (idiom) / to be sated with food and remain idle | |
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| | to eat (of bird or animal) / to feed | |
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| | to eat slowly (idiom) | |
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| | to eat one's fill | |
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| | to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload | |
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| | to eat meat and drink wine | |
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| | to eat one's fill / to have a good meal | |
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| | cooked food (ready to eat) | |
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| | to eat sb's flesh and sleep on their hide (idiom); to swear revenge on sb / implacable hatred / to have sb's guts for garters | |
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| | to wage guerrilla warfare; to fight as a guerrilla / (fig.) (coll.) to live or eat at no fixed place | |
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| | Xintiandi (shopping, eating and entertainment district of Shanghai) | |
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| | (literary) to eat | |
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| | not be accustomed to eating sth / not be used to certain food | |
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| | to eat bear heart and leopard gall (idiom) / to pluck up some courage | |
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| | mythical man-eating creature resembling a dog | |
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| | eating without working | |
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| | lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom) / fig. to spend one's money without generating any income | |
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| | people who regularly eat out | |
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| | to dress before light and not eat before dark (idiom) / diligently attending to official matters | |
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| | to start eating | |
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