吃 chī
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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). -
chī
verb
to suffer; to endure
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '吃' v 6; Unihan '吃') -
chī
verb
to inhale; ingest
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '吃' v 2) -
jí
verb
to stutter
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '吃' jí 1; Kroll 2015 '吃' 1, p. 50) -
chī
verb
to capture a chess piece
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In a game of chess (Guoyu '吃' v 3) -
chī
verb
to engulf
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: In the sense of 吞没 (Guoyu '吃' v 4) -
chī
verb
to sink
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (Guoyu '吃' v 5) -
chī
verb
to receive
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 吃惊 To be startled (Guoyu '吃' v 7) -
chī
verb
to expend
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: For example, 吃力 expend energy (Guoyu '吃' v 9) -
jí
onomatopoeia
laughing sound
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '吃' jí 2)
Contained in
- 看菜吃饭,量体裁衣(看菜吃飯,量體裁衣) eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body; to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure; to act according to actual circumstances
- 吃螺丝(吃螺絲) (of an actor, announcer etc) to stumble over words
- 吃牢饭(吃牢飯) to do prison time
- 吃皇粮(吃皇糧) to eat from government coffers; to serve as a government employee; to live off government money
- 吃得消 to be able to endure (exertion, fatigue etc); to be able to afford
- 吃不来(吃不來) to be unaccustomed to certain food; to not be keen on certain food
- 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
- 吃拿卡要 dinner invitations, grabbing, obstructing and demanding bribes; all kinds of abuse of power
- 吃奶之力 all one's strength
- 吃吃 sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc); sound of stammering
- 兔子不吃窝边草(兔子不吃窩邊草) A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow
- 吃空额(吃空額) to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only
- 吃人血馒头(吃人血饅頭) to take advantage of others' misfortune
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉(癩蛤蟆想吃天鵝肉) the toad wants to eat swan meat; to try to punch above one's weight
- 吃喝玩乐(吃喝玩樂) to eat, drink and be merry; to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
- 吃请(吃請) to be a guest at a dinner party; to be wined and dined (as a bribe)
- 吃里爬外(吃裡爬外) to work against the interests of somebody one derives support from; to double-cross one's employer
- 口吃 to stammer; to stutter
- 哑巴吃黄莲(啞巴吃黃蓮) no choice but to suffer in silence
- 吃饱撑着(吃飽撐著) having nothing better to do
- 吃空饷(吃空餉) to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only
- 吃鸭蛋(吃鴨蛋) (fig.) to score 0 (on a test, in competition etc)
- 吃不消 to be unable to tolerate or endure; to find something difficult to manage
- 吃馆子(吃館子) to eat out; to eat at a restaurant
- 吃布 to catch on cloth
- 大吃大喝 to eat and drink as much as one likes; to make a pig of oneself
- 吃错药(吃錯藥) to have taken the wrong medicine; (of one's behavior etc) different than usual; abnormal
- 贪吃者(貪吃者) glutton
- 吃人 exploitative; oppressive
- 吃软不吃硬(吃軟不吃硬) eats soft food, but refuses hard food; amenable to coaxing but not coercion
- 吃紧(吃緊) in short supply; dire; tense; critical; hard-pressed; important
- 吃喝拉撒睡 to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep; the ordinary daily routine
- 吃官司 to face legal action; to get sued
- 吃得开(吃得開) to be popular; to be getting on well; much in demand
- 小吃 snack; refreshments
- 令人吃惊(令人吃驚) to shock; to amaze
- 零吃 snack food
- 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
- 省吃俭用(省吃儉用) to live frugally; to economize on food and clothing; to scrimp and save
- 坐吃享福 vegetative existence; to consume passively without doing anything useful
- 好吃 tasty; delicious ; to be fond of eating
- 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)
- 自讨苦吃(自討苦吃) to ask for trouble; to make a rod for one's own back
- 吃不住 to be unable to bear or support
- 吃后悔药(吃後悔藥) (fig.) to regret (doing sth)
- 吃瓜群众(吃瓜群眾) peanut gallery (esp. in online forums)
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 酒吃 (酒吃) 那漢一頭吃酒吃肉 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第九十回 Chapter 90 — count: 2