吃 chī

1. chī verb to eat
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
   Notes: For example, 他不吃饭，也不睡觉 'He does not eat and he also does not sleep.' In literary Chinese 吃 may also be used for drink but it was not used in the sense of eating or drinking until after the Tang dynasty (CC-CEDICT '吃'; Guoyu '吃' v 1; Kroll 2015 '吃', p. 50; Unihan '吃'; Ye Shengtao, 1999, p. 4).
2. chī verb to suffer; to endure
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '吃' v 6; Unihan '吃')
3. chī verb to inhale; ingest
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '吃' v 2)
4. jí verb to stutter
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '吃' jí 1; Kroll 2015 '吃' 1, p. 50)
5. chī verb to capture a chess piece
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In a game of chess (Guoyu '吃' v 3)
6. chī verb to engulf
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 吞没 (Guoyu '吃' v 4)
7. chī verb to sink
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '吃' v 5)
8. chī verb to receive
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 吃惊 To be startled (Guoyu '吃' v 7)
9. chī verb to expend
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: For example, 吃力 expend energy (Guoyu '吃' v 9)
10. jí onomatopoeia laughing sound
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '吃' jí 2)

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• 吃不开(吃不開) be unpopular; won't work
• 黑吃黑 (of a villain) to do the dirty on another villain
• 吃大亏(吃大虧) to cost one dearly; to end disastrously; to pay bitterly
• 吃豆腐 to eat tofu; to flirt; to tease
• 白吃 to eat without paying; to eat for free
• 吃喝拉撒睡 to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep; the ordinary daily routine
• 讨吃(討吃) to beg for food
• 吃喝玩乐(吃喝玩樂) to eat, drink and be merry; to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
• 敬酒不吃吃罚酒(敬酒不吃吃罰酒) to refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit
• 吃瓜群众(吃瓜群眾) peanut gallery (esp. in online forums)
• 吃惊(吃驚) to be startled
• 小吃店 snack bar; lunch room
• 没吃没穿(沒吃沒穿) to be without food and clothing; poor
• 吃得苦中苦，方为人上人(吃得苦中苦，方為人上人) one cannot achieve glory and wealth without having been through trials and tribulations
• 吃得了 can eat
• 吃坏(吃壞) to get sick because of bad food
• 吃青春饭(吃青春飯) to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling)
• 哑巴吃黄连(啞巴吃黃連) no choice but to suffer in silence
• 吃不上 unable to get anything to eat; to miss a meal
• 吃官司 to face legal action; to get sued
• 好汉不吃眼前亏(好漢不吃眼前虧) a wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him
• 吃播 mukbang, genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience
• 吃馆子(吃館子) to eat out; to eat at a restaurant
• 争风吃醋(爭風吃醋) to rival somebody for the affection of a man or woman; to be jealous of a rival in a love affair
• 吃不了兜着走(吃不了兜著走) if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home; you'll have to take the consequences
• 吃螺丝(吃螺絲) (of an actor, announcer etc) to stumble over words
• 吃不到葡萄说葡萄酸(吃不到葡萄說葡萄酸) sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop); to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them
• 吃力 strenuous
• 偷吃 to eat on the sly; to pilfer food; to be unfaithful
• 吃货(吃貨) chowhound; foodie; a good-for-nothing
• 吃空饷(吃空餉) to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only
• 吃白食 to eat without paying; to freeload
• 吃人 exploitative; oppressive
• 吃法 way of eating; how something is eaten; how a dish is prepared; the way a dish is to be cooked
• 吃熊心豹子胆(吃熊心豹子膽) to eat bear heart and leopard gall; to pluck up some courage
• 吃空额(吃空額) to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only
• 乱吃(亂吃) to eat indiscriminately
• 难吃(難吃) unpalatable
• 吃后悔药(吃後悔藥) (fig.) to regret (doing sth)
• 吃不来(吃不來) to be unaccustomed to certain food; to not be keen on certain food
• 吃饱(吃飽) to eat one's fill
• 吃案 (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)
• 哑巴吃黄莲(啞巴吃黃蓮) no choice but to suffer in silence
• 胡吃海喝 to eat and drink gluttonously; to pig out
• 吃鸭蛋(吃鴨蛋) (fig.) to score 0 (on a test, in competition etc)
• 吃吃 sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc); sound of stammering
• 吃布 to catch on cloth
• 吃水不忘掘井人 Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it.
• 贪吃鬼(貪吃鬼) glutton; chowhound

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吃鸡 、 吃豆人

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Truncated for common words

• 第二回 Chapter 62 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 54
• 第二回 Chapter 41 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 52
• 第二回 Chapter 75 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 45
• 第二回 Chapter 8 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 42
• 第二回 Chapter 35 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 41
• 第二十四回 Chapter 24 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 40
• 第二回 Chapter 40 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 36
• 第二回 Chapter 38 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 36
• 第八十五回 Chapter 85 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 31
• 第二回 Chapter 63 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 30

Collocations

• 吃酒 (吃酒) 于阿顏家吃酒 — Old Book of Tang 舊唐書, 卷十八下 本紀第十八下: 宣宗 Volume 18 Annals 18: Xuanzong — count: 16
• 吃剌 (吃剌) 授吃剌思八斡節兒為帝師 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷十六　本紀第十六: 世祖十三 Volume 16 Annals 16: Shizu 13 — count: 8
• 来吃 (來吃) 大哥來吃酒 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第四十四回 Chapter 44 — count: 5
• 人吃 (人吃) 二人吃了 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二回 Chapter 2 — count: 4
• 吃一 (吃一) 滿莊裏人都吃一驚 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第七十三回 Chapter 73 — count: 4
• 两个吃 (兩個吃) 與他兩個吃 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第七十三回 Chapter 73 — count: 3
• 为人吃 (為人吃) 為人吃 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《五宗世家》 House of the Five Clans — count: 3
• 真吃 (真吃) 奪僧輦真吃剌思等所受司徒 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷二十七　本紀第二十七: 英宗一 Volume 27 Annals 27: Yingzong 1 — count: 3
• 性吃 (性吃) 廢帝性吃訥 — Book of Northern Qi 北齊書, 卷六　　補帝紀第六　孝昭帝 Volume 6 Annals 6: Emperor Xiaozhao — count: 3
• 吃野草 (吃野草) 不吃野草遠我道 — Book of Northern Qi 北齊書, 卷三四　補列傳第二六 楊愔 燕子獻 宋欽道 鄭頤 Volume 34 Biographies 26: Yang Yin; Yan Zixian; Song Qindao; Zheng Yi — count: 3