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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
to entail strenuous effort / to toil at a task / strenuous / laborious / strain
HSK 5
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
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
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)
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
to be a vegetarian
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
(Tw) all-you-can-eat (food) / (fig.) unlimited usage (digital services etc)
unable to get anything to eat / to miss a meal
HSK 7-9
(coll.) food
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 graze; to eat grass
(neologism c. 2019) (coll.) to gather dust
exploitative / oppressive
in short supply / dire / tense / critical / hard-pressed / important
eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)
susceptible to force but not persuasion
(coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing
to cost one dearly / to end disastrously / to pay bitterly
to bear hardships
HSK 7-9
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
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
(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
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
to face legal action; to get sued
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
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. to eat from government coffers / to serve as a government employee / to live off government money
to suck the breast (for milk)
(lit.) to have swallowed gunpowder / (fig.) to be ablaze with anger / ornery / snappy
Pac-Man (computer game)
to take liberties with (a woman) / to tease with sexual innuendo / to sexually harass / to take advantage of sb
chowhound / foodie / a good-for-nothing
having nothing better to do
to be popular / to be getting on well / much in demand
table manners
to eat (of bird or animal) / to feed
food / edibles
to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload
to be unaccustomed to certain food; to not be keen on certain food
to be able to bear / to be able to support
to feel jealous (esp. because of a rival in love or affection)
to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling)
to be unable to tolerate or endure / to find sth difficult to manage
to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only
ruthless / vicious and greedy
having nothing better to do / see 吃飽撐著|吃饱撑着
be unpopular / won't work
not be accustomed to eating sth / not be used to certain food
(fig.) to regret (doing sth)
to eat bear heart and leopard gall (idiom) / to pluck up some courage
(of food) to absorb oil / (of a vehicle) to guzzle fuel
to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep / (fig.) the ordinary daily routine
to feel reassured
all one's strength
to plunder the homes of the wealthy for food (in times of famine) / (of sb who has no income) to rely on others / to demand a "contribution" or "loan" from a business or wealthy individual
to work against the interests of sb one derives support from / to double-cross one's employer / to bite the hand that feeds you
slot machine
(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 take advantage of others' misfortune (idiom)

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