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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• 吃闭门羹(吃閉門羹) to be refused entrance; to find the door closed
• 一口吃不成胖子 you cannot get fat with only one mouthful; learn to walk before you run
• 乱吃(亂吃) to eat indiscriminately
• 吃穿 food and clothing
• 吃喝玩乐(吃喝玩樂) to eat, drink and be merry; to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
• 回家吃自己 to get sacked; to be fired
• 吃土
• 蹭吃 to freeload for food
• 吃味 to be jealous; to envy
• 狗吃屎 to fall flat on one's face (vulgar)
• 不干不净，吃了没病(不乾不淨，吃了沒病) a little dirt never killed anybody; a couple of germs won't do you any harm
• 寅吃卯粮(寅吃卯糧) eating away next year's food in advance; to dip into the next month's check; live now, pay later
• 吃力 strenuous
• 礼教吃人(禮教吃人) sufferings brought about by Confucian ethics
• 吃亏(吃虧) to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out ; disadvantageous
• 软硬不吃(軟硬不吃) unmoved by force or persuasion
• 吃豆腐 to eat tofu; to flirt; to tease
• 吃粮不管事(吃糧不管事) to eat without working; to take one's pay and not care about the rest
• 吃不服 not be accustomed to eating something; not be used to certain food
• 吃牢饭(吃牢飯) to do prison time
• 吃喝 to eat and drink; food and drink
• 坐吃享福 vegetative existence; to consume passively without doing anything useful
• 吃人 exploitative; oppressive
• 令人吃惊(令人吃驚) to shock; to amaze
• 吃斋(吃齋) to abstain from eating meat; to be a vegetarian
• 吃硬不吃软(吃硬不吃軟) susceptible to force but not persuasion
• 哑巴吃黄连，有苦说不出(啞巴吃黃連，有苦說不出) to be forced to suffer in silence; unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
• 吃白饭(吃白飯) to eat plain rice; to eat and not pay for it; to sponge off others; to freeload
• 吃螺丝(吃螺絲) (of an actor, announcer etc) to stumble over words
• 好马不吃回头草(好馬不吃回頭草) a good horse doesn't come back to the same pasture
• 心急吃不了热豆腐(心急吃不了熱豆腐) hasty men don't get to eat hot tofu; one just has to be patient; haste will ruin everything
• 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
• 吃药(吃藥) to take medicine
• 吃人血馒头(吃人血饅頭) to take advantage of others' misfortune
• 吃人家的嘴软，拿人家的手短(吃人家的嘴軟，拿人家的手短) the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach
• 吃大锅饭(吃大鍋飯) to eat from the common pot; to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance
• 吃掉 to eat up; to consume
• 黑吃黑 (of a villain) to do the dirty on another villain
• 口吃 to stammer; to stutter
• 吃官司 to face legal action; to get sued
• 靠山吃山，靠水吃水 the mountain dweller lives off the mountain, the shore dweller lives off the sea; to make the best use of local resources; to exploit one's position to advance oneself; to find one's niche
• 吃苦头(吃苦頭) to suffer; to suffer for one's actions; to pay dearly; to burn one's fingers
• 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)
• 吃不下 not feel like eating; be unable to eat any more
• 吃素 to be a vegetarian
• 吃霸王餐 to leave without paying
• 看菜吃饭(看菜吃飯) to eat depending on the dish; to act according to actual circumstances; to live within one's means
• 偷吃 to eat on the sly; to pilfer food; to be unfaithful
• 讨吃(討吃) to beg for food
• 吃空额(吃空額) to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only

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• 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
• 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
• 人吃 (人吃) 二人吃了 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第二回 Chapter 2 — count: 4
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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