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)

Contained in

• 吃饱撑着(吃飽撐著) having nothing better to do
• 吃得住 to be able to bear
• 吃干饭(吃乾飯) to be incompetent; useless; good-for-nothing
• 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
• 哑巴吃黄连(啞巴吃黃連) no choice but to suffer in silence
• 吃枪药(吃槍藥) to have swallowed gunpowder; to be ablaze with anger; ornery; snappy
• 吃饭皇帝大(吃飯皇帝大) eating comes first, then comes everything else
• 讨吃(討吃) to beg for food
• 吃水不忘掘井人 Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dug it.
• 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
• 吃牢饭(吃牢飯) to do prison time
• 哑巴吃黄莲(啞巴吃黃蓮) no choice but to suffer in silence
• 软硬不吃(軟硬不吃) unmoved by force or persuasion
• 吃香喝辣 to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor; to live well
• 大吃一惊(大吃一驚) to have a surprise; shocked or startled; gobsmacked
• 吃紧(吃緊) in short supply; dire; tense; critical; hard-pressed; important
• 吃不了 cannot eat
• 吃皇粮(吃皇糧) to eat from government coffers; to serve as a government employee; to live off government money
• 吃奶 to suck the breast (for milk)
• 试吃品(試吃品) food sample
• 没吃没穿(沒吃沒穿) to be without food and clothing; poor
• 吃熊心豹子胆(吃熊心豹子膽) to eat bear heart and leopard gall; to pluck up some courage
• 吃穿 food and clothing
• 吃不准(吃不準) to be unsure about a matter; to be uncertain; to be unable to make sense of sth
• 吃后悔药(吃後悔藥) (fig.) to regret (doing sth)
• 蹭吃蹭喝 to cadge a meal
• 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
• 吃土
• 吃着碗里，看着锅里(吃著碗裡，看著鍋裡) eyeing what's in the pot as one eats from one's bowl; not content with what one already has
• 吃闭门羹(吃閉門羹) to be refused entrance; to find the door closed
• 吃螺丝(吃螺絲) (of an actor, announcer etc) to stumble over words
• 吃得了 can eat
• 吃饭(吃飯) to have a meal; to eat; to make a living
• 吃重 (of a role) arduous; important; (a vehicle's) loading capacity
• 令人吃惊(令人吃驚) to shock; to amaze
• 吃苦 to suffer a hardship ; to be able to tolerate hardship
• 吃空额(吃空額) to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only
• 吃亏上当(吃虧上當) to be taken advantage of
• 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
• 坐吃山空 just sitting and eating, one can deplete even a mountain of wealth
• 吃大锅饭(吃大鍋飯) to eat from the common pot; to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance
• 吃霸王餐 to leave without paying
• 吃豆腐 to eat tofu; to flirt; to tease
• 吃喝嫖赌(吃喝嫖賭) to go dining, wining, whoring and gambling
• 偷吃 to eat on the sly; to pilfer food; to be unfaithful
• 贪吃者(貪吃者) glutton
• 吞吃 to devour
• 吃错药(吃錯藥) to have taken the wrong medicine; (of one's behavior etc) different than usual; abnormal
• 吃不消 to be unable to tolerate or endure; to find something difficult to manage
• 吃完 to finish eating

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吃小灶

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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 38 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 36
• 第二回 Chapter 40 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
• 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
• 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
• 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