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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
to have a meal / to eat / to make a living
HSK 1
tasty; delicious
HSK 1
to entail strenuous effort / to toil at a task / strenuous / laborious / strain
HSK 5
street food; snack
HSK 4
lit. to eat, drink, play and be merry (idiom) / fig. to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
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 be startled / to be shocked / to be amazed
HSK 4
to eat raw
way of eating / how something is eaten / how a dish is prepared / the way a dish is to be cooked
(coll.) to serve time in prison; (Tw) (sarcastic) to live off the prison system (getting free meals)
to finish eating
to eat one's fill
vegetative existence / to consume passively without doing anything useful
peanut gallery (esp. in online forums) / onlookers who are interested in the spectacle but don't have anything knowledgeable to say about it / (neologism c. 2016)
lit. eating away next year's food in advance / fig. to dip into the next month's check / live now, pay later
dinner invitations, grabbing, obstructing and demanding bribes / all kinds of abuse of power
(neologism c. 2016) (slang) to watch an entertaining spectacle from the sidelines and-or engage in gossip about it
food and clothing
to suffer / to suffer for one's actions / to pay dearly / to burn one's fingers
to eat and drink / food and drink
to be taken advantage of
to live off a woman
(idiom) astounded; flabbergasted; taken aback
HSK 7-9
to be a vegetarian
to stammer; to stutter / Taiwan pr. [kou3ji2]
HSK 7-9
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
(Tw) all-you-can-eat (food) / (fig.) unlimited usage (digital services etc)
to eat and drink as much as one likes / to make a pig of oneself
unable to get anything to eat / to miss a meal
HSK 7-9
(coll.) food
to bring trouble on oneself
to gorge oneself / to pig out
to dine and dash / to leave without paying
lit. to go dining, wining, whoring and gambling (idiom) / fig. to lead a life of dissipation
to eat and drink extravagantly / to binge
lit. to want to get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. to try to achieve one's goal in the shortest time possible / to be impatient for success
to graze; to eat grass
(neologism c. 2019) (coll.) to gather dust
to shock / to amaze
exploitative / oppressive
in short supply / dire / tense / critical / hard-pressed / important
eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)
to gorge oneself with food
susceptible to force but not persuasion
to eat on the sly / to pilfer food / to be unfaithful
(coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing
to cost one dearly / to end disastrously / to pay bitterly
to bear hardships
HSK 7-9
glutton
to eat without paying / to freeload
lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom) / amenable to coaxing but not coercion
one cannot achieve glory and wealth without having been through trials and tribulations (proverb) / no pain, no gain
to provide full board
to be fond of eating; to be gluttonous
lit. eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl (idiom) / not content with what one already has / (of men, typically) to have the wandering eye
(idiom) to devour (food) / (idiom) to shamelessly take advantage; to ruthlessly exploit
lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom) / fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance
lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom) / fig. to live well
to eat out / to eat at a restaurant
hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu (idiom) / one just has to be patient / haste will ruin everything
(lit.) to have taken the wrong medicine / (fig.) (of one's behavior etc) different than usual / abnormal
(slang) unattractive; ugly (derived from near homophone 醜|丑)
(of a role) arduous / important / (a vehicle's) loading capacity
no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom) / also written 啞巴吃黃蓮|哑巴吃黄莲 / (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出)
lit. you cannot get fat with only one mouthful (proverb) / fig. any significant achievement requires time, effort and persistence
to be forced to suffer in silence / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
food and lodging / to stay (at some place) and eat meals (there)
popular / in demand / well regarded
to abstain from eating meat / to be a vegetarian
sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them
Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes.
to be jealous
A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine
to face legal action; to get sued
not to be trifled with / to be reckoned with
lit. a rabbit never eats the grass beside its own burrow (saying) / fig. even a scoundrel does not do harm in his immediate neighborhood
to lead an idle life; to be a loafer
to be refused entrance; to find the door closed
(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 eat up / to consume
lit. a good horse doesn't turn around and graze the same patch again (idiom) / fig. once you've moved on, don't go back again (romantic relationship, job etc) / leave the past behind
to upset (one's stomach) by eating bad food or overeating
to take medicine
to be sick of eating (sth); to be tired of eating (sth)
to be on the government payroll
to be given special treatment / to be treated in a favored way
to be able to endure (exertion, fatigue etc) / to be able to afford
mukbang, genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience
lit. a child who cries gets to feed at the breast (idiom) / fig. the squeaky wheel gets the grease
to freeload
sufferings brought about by Confucian ethics
lit. to eat from government coffers / to serve as a government employee / to live off government money
taking or eating more than one's due (idiom); greedy and selfish
to stuff oneself with food
to suck the breast (for milk)
(lit.) to have swallowed gunpowder / (fig.) to be ablaze with anger / ornery / snappy

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