吃
chīTraditional: 吃
HSK 1
#130 of 5,000 Core 1000
Translation
to eat
Stroke order
吃
Examples
？
Have you eaten?
。
I want to eat rice.
。
Let's go eat together.
药。
He fell asleep after taking the medicine.
肉。
The child doesn't like eating meat.
吃 (chī) means to eat. It is used as a verb in everyday Mandarin speech.
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Grammar articles
- Mandarin Advanced Grammar (C1-C2 / HSK 6+): Chengyu, Classical Remnants, and Register
- Mandarin Grammar Cheatsheet: The Essentials, One Page
- Mandarin Verb Conjugation: Why It Doesn't Exist and What Replaces It
- Mandarin Intermediate Grammar (B1-B2 / HSK 4-5): Complements, Conjunctions and the Full 了 System
- Mandarin Word Order: SVO, Topic-Comment, and the 把 Construction That Reorders Everything
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