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HSK
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *吃* | 吃* | *吃
to eat; to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate; to destroy / to absorb / to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
HSK 1
charactercopyAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *吃* | 吃* | *吃
variant of
HSK 1
to have a meal / to eat / to make a living
HSK 1
to be startled / to be shocked / to be amazed
HSK 4
to entail strenuous effort / to toil at a task / strenuous / laborious / strain
HSK 5
to bear hardships
HSK 7-9
to suffer losses / to come to grief / to lose out / to get the worst of it / to be at a disadvantage / unfortunately
HSK 7-9
unable to get anything to eat / to miss a meal
HSK 7-9
to eat, drink and be merry (idiom) / to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
HSK 7-9
food and clothing
popular / in demand / well regarded
way of eating / how something is eaten / how a dish is prepared / the way a dish is to be cooked
to eat (of bird or animal) / to feed
food / edibles
drinking water / to obtain water (for daily needs) / to absorb water / draft (of ship)
to take medicine
to be a vegetarian
(onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc) / sound of stammering
Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes.
(of a role) arduous / important / (a vehicle's) loading capacity
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
to feel jealous
to suck the breast (for milk)
to be unable to tolerate or endure / to find sth difficult to manage
(neologism c. 2016) (slang) to watch an entertaining spectacle from the sidelines and-or engage in gossip about it
lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom) / fig. you'll have to take the consequences
to abstain from eating meat / to be a vegetarian
in short supply / dire / tense / critical / hard-pressed / important
to be popular / to be getting on well / much in demand
to be forced to suffer in silence / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
to lead an idle life; to be a loafer
to be able to endure (exertion, fatigue etc) / to be able to afford
to work against the interests of sb one derives support from / to double-cross one's employer / to bite the hand that feeds you
to be a guest at a dinner party / to be wined and dined (as a bribe)
to be unable to bear or support
to be unsure about a matter / to be uncertain / to be unable to make sense of sth
be unpopular / won't work
to be unaccustomed to certain food; to not be keen on certain food
to eat up / to consume
chowhound / foodie / a good-for-nothing
to finish eating
(coll.) food
food and lodging / to stay (at some place) and eat meals (there)
to eat one's fill
to be able to bear / to be able to support
(video games) PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) / battle royale game / last-man-standing game / to play PUBG (or similar game) / to win at PUBG (or similar game)
to graze; to eat grass
table manners
mukbang, genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience
(neologism c. 2019) (coll.) to gather dust
(coll.) to suffer a humiliation
not be accustomed to eating sth / not be used to certain food
to be sick of eating (sth); to be tired of eating (sth)
(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)
to upset (one's stomach) by eating bad food or overeating
to attend a banquet (funeral, wedding etc) / (neologism c. 2020) (slang) (jocular) lit. to attend sb's funeral banquet (used to imply that things are going to go badly for sb)
to be jealous
to catch on cloth (e.g. of a zip fastener)
penetration of a cutting tool
exploitative / oppressive
(of food) to absorb oil / (of a vehicle) to guzzle fuel
(slang) unattractive; ugly (derived from near homophone 醜|丑)
to eat without paying / to freeload
Pac-Man (computer game)
(Tw) all-you-can-eat (food) / (fig.) unlimited usage (digital services etc)
(Tw) (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)
to be given special treatment / to be treated in a favored way
to receive a kickback; to draw a commission
to live off a woman
not feel like eating / be unable to eat any more
lit. eats soft food, but refuses hard food (idiom) / amenable to coaxing but not coercion
to take advantage of others' misfortune (idiom)
arduous and thankless task (idiom); strenuous and unrewarding
slot machine
dinner invitations, grabbing, obstructing and demanding bribes / all kinds of abuse of power
(idiom) to devour (food) / (idiom) to shamelessly take advantage; to ruthlessly exploit
to embezzle by adding to the payroll employees existing in name only
ruthless / vicious and greedy
to dine and dash / to leave without paying
eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)
lit. the mouth that has been fed by others is soft, the hand that has received doesn't reach (idiom) / fig. one is partial to those from whom presents have been accepted
to cost one dearly / to end disastrously / to pay bitterly
to take liberties with (a woman) / to tease with sexual innuendo / to sexually harass / to take advantage of sb
to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep / (fig.) the ordinary daily routine
lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom) / fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance
(lit.) to have taken the wrong medicine / (fig.) (of one's behavior etc) different than usual / abnormal
to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling)
(coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing
all one's strength
to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload
susceptible to force but not persuasion
to be refused entrance (idiom) / to find the door closed
lit. to eat delicious food and drink hard liquor (idiom) / fig. to live well
sour grapes (set expr. based on Aesop) / lit. to say grapes are sour when you can't eat them
to feel reassured
to be on the government payroll
lit. bread previously chewed by someone has no flavor (idiom) / fig. there's no joy in discovering something if someone else got there first
to eat and drink / food and drink

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