吃 (chī)
to eat
How 吃 is written
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- Traditional
- 吃
- Simplified
- 吃 (unchanged)
吃 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- chī
- to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate
- jí
- stammer
Common words using 吃
- 吃完 chīwán
- to finish eating
- 吃掉 chīdiào
- to eat up; to consume
- 吃虧 chīkuī
- to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out
- 吃飯 chīfàn
- to eat a meal
- 好吃 hǎochī
- tasty; delicious
- 小吃 xiǎochī
- snack; refreshments; CL:家[jia1]
- 亂吃 luànchī
- to eat indiscriminately
- 偷吃 tōuchī
- to eat on the sly; to pilfer food; to be unfaithful
- 口吃 kǒuchī
- to stammer; to stutter; also pronounced [kou3 ji2]
- 可吃 kěchī
- edible
- 吃不下 chībuxià
- not feel like eating; be unable to eat any more
- 吃不消 chībuxiāo
- to be unable to tolerate or endure; to find sth difficult to manage
吃 in a sentence
你吃飽了嗎？
Nǐ chībǎo le ma?
“Have you eaten yet? (Are you full?)”
How common is 吃?
吃 is the 475th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 74.7% of all running text.
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