IDENTITY
吃chīto eat
HSK 1Top 44
CORE MEANING
to eat
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to eatHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 口mouth radical (kǒu)
- strokes
- 6
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰口乞
- mouth
- gives the sound chī (historical)
USAGE
Common words
吃饭chīfànto eat a meal
好吃hǎochīdelicious
小吃xiǎochīsnack
Graded examples
我饿了，想吃饭。Wǒ è le, xiǎng chīfàn.HSK1
I am hungry and want to eat.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 气
LEARNING
Memory aid
A mouth (口) begging (乞) for food — eating.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #44
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-14
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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