English
- eat
- to eat; to consume
- drink
- to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
- suffer, endure, bear
- to eradicate; to destroy
- to absorb
- to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
- to eat; to take
- to take (medicine)
粵語
- 將食物由口腔吞入身體
- 服用藥物
Variants
Words containing 吃
- 吃香hek3 hoeng1
popular
- 好吃hou2 hek3
tasty; delicious
- 吃重hek3 cung5
(of a role) arduous
- 吃驚hek3 ging1
to be startled
- 小吃siu2 hek3
street food; snack
- 白吃baak6 hek3
to eat without paying
- 黑吃黑hak1 hek3 hak1
(of a villain) to do the dirty on another villain
- 吃虧hek3 kwai1
to suffer losses
- 吃苦hek3 fu2
to bear hardships
- 吃醋hek3 cou3
to feel jealous (esp. because of a rival in love or affection)
- 吃力hek3 lik6
to entail strenuous effort
- 吃水hek3 seoi2
drinking water
- 吃飯hek3 faan6
to have a meal
- 吃布hek3 bou3
to catch on cloth (e.g. of a zip fastener)
- 吃刀hek3 dou1
penetration of a cutting tool
- 吃煙hek3 jin1
(dialect) to smoke (tobacco)
- 猛吃maang5 hek3
to gobble up
- 討吃tou2 hek3
to beg for food
- 吞吃tan1 hek3
to devour
- 吃不消hek3 bat1 siu1
to be unable to tolerate or endure
- 吃人hek3 jan4
exploitative
- 吃的hek3 dik1
(coll.) food
- 大吃daai6 hek3
to gorge oneself
- 可吃ho2 hek3
edible