吃
chī HSK1

eat

吃 chī
variant 喫
to eat verb
to eat; to chew and swallow; to dine at (a restaurant etc.); also includes consuming liquids such as drinking tea or soup

不是，我只是不吃肉。

bù​shì, wǒ zhǐ​shì bù chī ròu.

No, I just don't eat meat.

我必须吃这个药吗？

wǒ bì​xū chī zhè​ge yào ma?

Do I have to take this medicine?

to suffer verb
to suffer; to incur; to bear a burden or experience a negative state like a shock or defeat
food noun
something to eat; food
to live on nounverb
to rely on a certain source for one's livelihood
to eliminate particleverb
to wipe out or annihilate; to take a piece in a game like chess
to exhaust
to be a strain; to require a lot of effort or energy
to understand
to grasp; to understand thoroughly; to be sure of
to stutter
(bound form) to stammer or speak with difficulty; also used to describe the sound of laughter
to absorb
to soak up or absorb a liquid such as ink or water
to penetrate
(of a ship) to have a certain draft; (of a tool) to cut into a surface or material

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Frequency
Character
Written text
475th most common 444.3 per million
Movie subtitles
241st most common 722.2 per million appears in 88% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
832.1 per million appears in 83% of films
Written text
689.8 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
6
Unicode
U+5403

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)