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Pīnyīn
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HSK
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *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
street food; snack
HSK 4
to eat raw
to stammer; to stutter / Taiwan pr. [kou3ji2]
HSK 7-9
to bring trouble on oneself
to gorge oneself / to pig out
to gorge oneself with food
to eat on the sly / to pilfer food / to be unfaithful
to be fond of eating; to be gluttonous
lit. a child who cries gets to feed at the breast (idiom) / fig. the squeaky wheel gets the grease
to devour
unmoved by force or persuasion
to beg for food
edible
lit. the child who cries gets the candy (idiom) / fig. the squeaky wheel gets the grease
unpalatable
to start eating
(neologism c. 2024) to stubbornly endure hardships that need not be endured; to go out of one's way to make things difficult for oneself
to gobble up / to gorge oneself on (food)
gluttonous; voracious
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *喫* | 喫* | *喫
variant of
HSK 1
to eat without paying / to eat for free
(idiom) to ask for trouble; to make a rod for one's own back
winner takes all
to eat indiscriminately
(coll.) snack food
Enjoy your meal! / Bon appetit!
to freeload for food
(onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc) / sound of stammering


Tip: Pinyin can be entered with or without tone numbers, e.g. 'nihao' or 'ni3hao3'.
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