吃

吃 (radical 30, 口+3, 6 strokes, cangjie input 口人弓 (RON), four-corner 6801₇, composition ⿰口乞)

• KangXi: page 174, character 17
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 3280
• Dae Jaweon: page 387, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 579, character 5
• Unihan data for U+5403

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *kɯd) : semantic 口 + phonetic 乞 (OC *kʰɯds, *kʰɯd).

吃

1. to eat; to consume

   他很喜歡吃飯。 / 他很喜欢吃饭。  ―  Tā hěn xǐhuān chīfàn.  ―  He loves to eat.

   你吃飯了嗎？ / 你吃饭了吗？  ―  Nǐ chīfàn le ma?  ―  Have you eaten? (also a greeting)

   • 你吃過飯嗎？ / 你吃过饭吗？  ―  Nǐ chī guò fàn ma?  ―  Have you eaten? (also a greeting)

   • 儂飯吃過了𠲎？ [Shanghainese, trad.]
     侬饭吃过了𠲎？ [Shanghainese, simp.]

     Have you eaten? (also a greeting)

   • 排排坐，吃果果。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

     From: 《排排坐》, traditional children's song

     Paai⁴ paai⁴ co⁵, hek³ gwo² gwo². [Jyutping]

     Let's sit together and eat fruits.

2. to live on
3. to suffer; to endure; to bear

   吃苦  ―  chīkǔ  ―  to endure hardship

   吃虧 / 吃亏  ―  chīkuī  ―  to suffer losses, to be at a disadvantage

   • 他胸口吃了一槍。 / 他胸口吃了一枪。  ―  Tā xiōngkǒu chī le yī qiāng.  ―  He took a bullet in the chest.
4. to exhaust; to be a strain
5. to drink

吃

1. to stammer; to stutter; to falter

   口吃  ―  kǒuchī  ―  to stammer, to stutter

吃

1. Only used in 吃吃 (qīqī).

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

1. stammering, stuttering
2. accept, comply

• Go-on: こち (kochi)
• Kan-on: きつ (kitsu)
• Kun: きっする (kissuru, 吃する)^{←きつする (kitusuru, historical)}; どもり (domori, 吃り); どもる (domoru, 吃る)

Attested in the Ruiju Myōgishō (c. 12th century).[1]

Likely a compound of 儘 (mama, “remaining at a certain state”) + 泣き (naki), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 泣く (naku, “to cry”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

吃 (hiragana ままなき, rōmaji mamanaki)

1. stammering, stuttering
2. a stutterer

• 吃 (ども)り (domori)

Borrowed from Mandarin 吃 (chī, literally “to eat”)[1][2]

• (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) チ​ー [chíꜜì] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [t͡ɕiː]

吃 (katakana チー, rōmaji chī)

1. (mahjong) chow (meld of three tiles that form a sequence)

• Usually written in kana alone.

• 碰 (ポン) (pon, “pung”)
• 槓 (カン) (kan, “kong”)

吃 • (heul) (hangeul 흘)

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吃 (khật, hấc, hất, hớt, ngát, ngặt, ngật, ực, cật)

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