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

• 吃大户(吃大戶) to plunder the homes of the wealthy for food (in times of famine); (of somebody who has no income) to rely on others
• 吃螺丝(吃螺絲) (of an actor, announcer etc) to stumble over words
• 吃饭皇帝大(吃飯皇帝大) eating comes first, then comes everything else
• 吃紧(吃緊) in short supply; dire; tense; critical; hard-pressed; important
• 吃到饱(吃到飽) all-you-can-eat (buffet)
• 口吃 to stammer; to stutter
• 吃后悔药(吃後悔藥) (fig.) to regret (doing sth)
• 吃坏(吃壞) to get sick because of bad food
• 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
• 吃了定心丸 to feel reassured
• 小吃店 snack bar; lunch room
• 乱吃(亂吃) to eat indiscriminately
• 吃不下 not feel like eating; be unable to eat any more
• 吃住 food and lodging; to stay and eat meals
• 吃得消 to be able to endure (exertion, fatigue etc); to be able to afford
• 黑吃黑 (of a villain) to do the dirty on another villain
• 大吃特吃 to gorge oneself with food
• 吃刀 penetration of a cutting tool
• 吃饱了饭撑的(吃飽了飯撐的) having nothing better to do
• 吃亏上当(吃虧上當) to be taken advantage of
• 吃播 mukbang, genre of online broadcast consisting of the host eating food while interacting with their audience
• 吃吃 sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc); sound of stammering
• 吃小灶(吃小竈) to be given special treatment; to be treated in a favored way
• 吃不住 to be unable to bear or support
• 眼睛吃冰淇淋 to be checking out the hotties
• 吃香 very popular
• 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
• 吃完 to finish eating
• 吃人不吐骨头(吃人不吐骨頭) ruthless; vicious and greedy
• 吃得开(吃得開) to be popular; to be getting on well; much in demand
• 吃茶 to drink tea
• 吃不消 to be unable to tolerate or endure; to find something difficult to manage
• 吃闭门羹(吃閉門羹) to be refused entrance; to find the door closed
• 吃霸王餐 to leave without paying
• 贪吃(貪吃) gluttonous; voracious
• 吃不服 not be accustomed to eating something; not be used to certain food
• 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
• 吃奶的力气(吃奶的力氣) all one's strength
• 吃喝 to eat and drink; food and drink
• 坐吃享福 vegetative existence; to consume passively without doing anything useful
• 吃喝玩乐(吃喝玩樂) to eat, drink and be merry; to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure
• 大吃大喝 to eat and drink as much as one likes; to make a pig of oneself
• 吃醋 to feel jealous
• 吃苦耐劳(吃苦耐勞) hardworking and enduring hardships
• 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)
• 吃烟(吃煙) to smoke opium
• 吃官司 to face legal action; to get sued
• 礼教吃人(禮教吃人) sufferings brought about by Confucian ethics
• 吃饱(吃飽) to eat one's fill
• 吃土

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吃味

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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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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