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])

variant of 吃[chi1]

to beg

mouth / classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc) / classifier for bites or mouthfuls

to eat, drink and be merry (idiom) / to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure

to be forced to suffer in silence / unable to speak of one's bitter suffering

to eat, drink, shit, piss, and sleep / (fig.) the ordinary daily routine

(neologism c. 2015) (slang) (used jokingly) to live on dirt (typically because one has spent all one's money on consumer items)

to upset (one's stomach) by eating bad food or overeating

to plunder the homes of the wealthy for food (in times of famine) / (of sb who has no income) to rely on others / to demand a "contribution" or "loan" from a business or wealthy individual

to cost one dearly / to end disastrously / to pay bitterly

lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom) / fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance

to suck the breast (for milk)

to be jealous

to be jealous / to envy

to go dining, wining, whoring and gambling / to lead a life of dissipation