吃
喫Meanings
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- 1.variant of 吃[chī]
- 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)
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Wiktionary
- 1.to eat; to consume
- 2.to absorb (a liquid)
- 3.to swallow up; to absorb; to annex
- 4.to live on
- 5.to suffer; to endure; to bear
- 6.to exhaust; to be a strain
- 7.to comprehend; to grasp (the subtext)
- 8.to drink
- 9.to capture
- 10.to chow
- 11.to accept
- 12.because
- 13.to stammer; to stutter; to falter
- 14.only used in 吃吃 (qīqī)
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *kɯd): semantic 口 (“mouth”) + phonetic 乞 (OC *kʰɯds, *kʰɯd) – "to stutter". The phonetic component could add part of the meaning since it has the phonetically borrowed meaning of "begging" (i.e., trying to talk but with difficulties). According to folk etymologies, 乞 in this character indicates that, while stuttering, less air comes from the mouth (compare 气, which has more trails). However, this is incorrect. 乞 is simply a variant of 气, originally meaning "air" and later borrowed to indicate "begging".
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Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
她吃。
She is eating.
吃了嗎？
Did you eat?
慢点吃！
Eat more slowly.
我吃飽了。
I'm full.
我吃面包。
I eat bread.
我吃飽了。
I am full.
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