chī

eat

Variant of .

Evolution

喫 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

chī

eat; drink; suffer, endure, bear

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chī

variant of [chī]

Most common words with 喫
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to eat

吃饭

to eat

好吃

tasty

吃惊

to be startled

大吃一惊

gobsmacked

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 87.9865% of movies

241st most common character in movies

475th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+55AB

Shuowen

《說文新附》:“喫,食也。从口,契聲。”


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