吃

chī · chi

Traditional 喫

Meaning

CC-CEDICT

chī 吃

  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)

chī 喫

  1. variant of 吃 (chī)

In a sentence

2 examples
01

今(jīn)天(tiān)想(xiǎng)吃(chī)清(qīng)淡(dàn)的(de)食(shí)物(wù)呢(ne)。

Today I want to eat something light.

Tatoeba: Chinese by rickjiang · English by CK · CC BY 2.0 FR. Pinyin added or corrected.

02

睡(shuì)觉(jiào)前(qián)我(wǒ)吃(chī)了(le)三(sān)片(piàn)药(yào)来(lái)治(zhì)疗(liáo)感(gǎn)冒(mào)。

Before going to bed, I took three pills to stop a cold.

Tatoeba: Chinese by wzhd · English by monahxo · CC BY 2.0 FR. Simplified Chinese conversion; Pinyin added or corrected.

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