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吃

Traditional: 喫

chī

HSK 3.0 · 1HSK 2.0 · 1

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chī · hek3 (Jyutping)

  1. to eat; to consume
  2. to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  3. to eradicate; to destroy
  4. to absorb
  5. to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
  6. variant of 吃[chi1]

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

吃

Meaning
eat; drink; suffer, endure, bear
Radical
口
Strokes
6
Components
⿰口乞
Cangjie
RON
Four-corner
6801.7

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