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  *吃* | 吃* | *吃
to eat; to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate; to destroy / to absorb / to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
HSK 1
tasty; delicious
HSK 1
charactercopypronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *吃* | 吃* | *吃
variant of
HSK 1
to have a meal / to eat / to make a living
HSK 1
to be startled / to be shocked / to be amazed
HSK 4
snack / refreshments / CL:
HSK 4
to entail strenuous effort / to toil at a task / strenuous / laborious / strain
HSK 5
to have a surprise (idiom); shocked or startled / gobsmacked
HSK 7-9
to bear hardships
HSK 7-9
to stammer; to stutter / Taiwan pr. [kou3ji2]
HSK 7-9
to suffer losses / to come to grief / to lose out / to get the worst of it / to be at a disadvantage / unfortunately
HSK 7-9
to eat, drink and be merry (idiom) / to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
HSK 7-9
unable to get anything to eat / to miss a meal
HSK 7-9
to be fond of eating; to be gluttonous
food and clothing
drinking water / to obtain water (for daily needs) / to absorb water / draft (of ship)
Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes.
to be a vegetarian
to feel jealous
to take medicine
(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
to abstain from eating meat / to be a vegetarian
to be unable to tolerate or endure / to find sth difficult to manage
popular / in demand / well regarded
to eat raw
gluttonous; voracious
to rival sb for the affection of a man or woman / to be jealous of a rival in a love affair
to eat on the sly / to pilfer food / to be unfaithful
way of eating / how something is eaten / how a dish is prepared / the way a dish is to be cooked
unpalatable
to eat (of bird or animal) / to feed
food / edibles
to suck the breast (for milk)
(onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc) / sound of stammering
to eat without paying / to eat for free
to be forced to suffer in silence / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
(of a role) arduous / important / (a vehicle's) loading capacity
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
to ask for trouble (idiom) / to make a rod for one's own back
happy to partake but not prepared to do any work (idiom) / all take and no give
to live frugally
in short supply / dire / tense / critical / hard-pressed / important
a little dirt never killed anybody (proverb) / a couple of germs won't do you any harm
lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom) / fig. you'll have to take the consequences
to be a guest at a dinner party / to be wined and dined (as a bribe)
to devour
to be unaccustomed to certain food; to not be keen on certain food
lit. just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth (idiom) / fig. to spend one's money without generating any income
to be popular / to be getting on well / much in demand
to eat and drink as much as one likes / to make a pig of oneself
to be unsure about a matter / to be uncertain / to be unable to make sense of sth
unmoved by force or persuasion
to be able to endure (exertion, fatigue etc) / to be able to afford
lit. eating away next year's food in advance / fig. to dip into the next month's check / live now, pay later
to be unable to bear or support
lit. to eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body (idiom) / fig. to act according to actual circumstances
taking or eating more than one's due (idiom); greedy and selfish
to work against the interests of sb one derives support from / to double-cross one's employer / to bite the hand that feeds you
lit. the mountain dweller lives off the mountain, the shore dweller lives off the sea (idiom) / fig. to make the best use of local resources / to exploit one's position to advance oneself / to find one's niche / to live off the land
to be able to bear / to be able to support
to attend a banquet (funeral, wedding etc) / (neologism c. 2020) (slang) (jocular) lit. to attend sb's funeral banquet (used to imply that things are going to go badly for sb)
to eat up / to consume
be unpopular / won't work
to finish eating
to eat and drink gluttonously / to pig out
to beg for food
to eat one's fill
food and lodging / to stay (at some place) and eat meals (there)
to graze; to eat grass
(coll.) food
(video games) PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) / battle royale game / last-man-standing game / to play PUBG (or similar game) / to win at PUBG (or similar game)
to start eating
chowhound / foodie / a good-for-nothing
table manners
mukbang, genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience
(coll.) to suffer a humiliation
(neologism c. 2016) (slang) to watch an entertaining spectacle from the sidelines and-or engage in gossip about it
(neologism c. 2019) (coll.) to gather dust
to upset (one's stomach) by eating bad food or overeating
to be jealous
to catch on cloth (e.g. of a zip fastener)
penetration of a cutting tool
exploitative / oppressive
(of food) to absorb oil / (of a vehicle) to guzzle fuel
to freeload for food
lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom) / fig. to live well
(of a villain) to do the dirty on another villain
a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him (idiom)
to be sick of eating (sth); to be tired of eating (sth)
lit. to refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit (idiom) / fig. to turn down a request only to be forced later to comply with it under pressure
(Tw) (of the police) to bury a crime (i.e. conceal the existence of a criminal case in order to improve crime-solving statistics or in return for a bribe etc)
to fall flat on one's face (vulgar)
lit. a child who cries gets to feed at the breast (idiom) / fig. the squeaky wheel gets the grease
lit. a dog can't stop himself from eating shit (idiom) / fig. bad habits are hard to change
lit. an old cow eats young grass (idiom) / fig. a May-December relationship / a romance where the man is significantly older than the woman
to take liberties with (a woman) / to tease with sexual innuendo / to sexually harass / to take advantage of sb
snack bar / lunch room / CL:
not be accustomed to eating sth / not be used to certain food

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