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. 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. onomatopoeia laughing sound
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '吃' jí 2)
  11. chī phonetic kha
    Domain: Buddhism 佛教
    Notes: Sanskrit equivalent: kha; see 佉 (FGDB '佉')

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