吃饭

Character by character

• 吃chī6 strokesHSK 1eat; drink; suffer, endure, bear
• 饭fàn7 strokesHSK 1 traditional 飯cooked rice; food, meal

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Example sentences

• 他在吃饭。

  Tā zài chī fàn

  He is eating.

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• 我在吃饭。

  Wǒ zài chī fàn

  I'm eating.

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 吃饭. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 吃chīHSK 1

  to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)

• 饭fànHSK 1

  cooked rice; meal; (loanword) fan; devotee

• 好吃hǎo chīHSK 1

  tasty; delicious

• 晚饭wǎn fànHSK 1

  evening meal; dinner; supper

• 饭店fàn diànHSK 1

  restaurant; hotel

• 吃惊chī jīngHSK 4

  to be startled; to be shocked; to be amazed

• 午饭wǔ fànHSK 1

  lunch

• 做饭zuò fànHSK 2

  to prepare a meal; to cook

• 早饭zǎo fànHSK 1

  breakfast

• 大吃一惊dà chī yī jīngHSK 7

  to have a surprise (idiom); shocked or startled; gobsmacked

• 米饭mǐ fànHSK 1

  (cooked) rice

• 小吃xiǎo chīHSK 4

  snack; refreshments

• 饭碗fàn wǎnHSK 7

  rice bowl; fig. livelihood; job; way of making a living

• 年夜饭nián yè fànHSK 7

  New Year's Eve family dinner

• 吃亏chī kuīHSK 7

  to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out; to get the worst of it; to be at a disadvantage; unfortunately

• 饭馆fàn guǎnHSK 2

  restaurant

• 吃力chī lìHSK 5

  to entail strenuous effort; to toil at a task; strenuous; laborious; strain

• 吃苦chī kǔHSK 7

  to bear hardships

• 盒饭hé fànHSK 5

  meal in a partitioned box

• 口吃kǒu chīHSK 7

  to stammer; to stutter; Taiwan pr. [kǒu jí]

• 吃喝玩乐chī hē wán lèHSK 7

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

• 便饭biàn fànHSK 7

  an ordinary meal; simple home cooking

• 电饭锅diàn fàn guōHSK 5

  electric rice cooker

• 吃不上chī bu shàngHSK 7

  unable to get anything to eat; to miss a meal