吃
to eat / to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate / to destroy / to absorb / to suffer / to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])
吃 character breakdown
Characters with 吃 as component
吃
is not used as a component in another character.
Words with 吃
to be forced to suffer in silence / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
see 又要馬兒跑，又要馬兒不吃草|又要马儿跑，又要马儿不吃草[you4 yao4 ma3 r5 pao3 , you4 yao4 ma3 r5 bu4 chi1 cao3]
lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom) / fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too
"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC
Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes.
lit. if you can't eat it all, you'll have to take it home (idiom) / fig. you'll have to take the consequences