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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
chī - to eat; to consume
- to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
- to eradicate; to destroy
- to absorb
- to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
chī - variant of 吃[chi1]

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
1 1 153 132 45

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Mouth

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
1 1 153 132 45
吃饭 - 1 1,336 1,497 525
吃惊 4 4 2,048 6,994 12,177
好吃 2 1 2,075 2,893 822
大吃一惊 - 7 6,056 13,832 28,688
吃醋 - - 6,957 12,994 5,123
小吃 5 4 11,724 8,798 4,563
吃素 - - 16,325 23,462 10,160
难吃 - - 17,184 - -
吃力 6 5 18,667 14,994 13,531
吃亏 5 9 18,668 10,002 6,558
吃不消 - - 20,210 21,194 11,799
吃药 - - 20,860 10,985 5,056
贪吃 - - 21,729 32,307 15,482
自讨苦吃 - - 22,204 58,763 37,950
白吃 - - 23,183 37,006 18,914
口吃 - 9 25,755 30,156 16,967
吃香 - - 28,258 27,841 16,458
吃喝 - - 29,595 14,756 9,959
小吃店 - - 30,019 36,537 27,368
大吃大喝 - - 31,168 32,373 20,909
吃苦 6 9 31,509 14,731 10,328
吃苦头 - - 31,578 70,555 68,941
吃法 - - 31,879 - -
吃得消 - - 34,422 62,688 37,023
吃喝玩乐 - 9 35,837 24,047 11,925
吃得开 - - 36,550 59,012 31,869
省吃俭用 - - 37,203 34,687 28,638
吃紧 - - 37,281 27,298 33,173
吃官司 - - 40,120 88,961 70,258
吃水 - - 46,337 28,019 24,862
吃苦耐劳 - - 49,848 29,970 30,306
狗吃屎 - - 51,942 86,978 46,499
吃不开 - - 55,044 - 80,093
吃闲饭 - - 58,190 97,171 75,094
吃回扣 - - 64,854 72,440 65,669
吃闭门羹 - - 65,422 103,736 77,587
吃哑巴亏 - - 87,311 98,949 81,803
坐吃山空 - - 98,815 79,765 69,990