Chinese word dictionary

吃掉

chī diào · to eat up; to consume

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Word information

Simplified吃掉

Traditional吃掉

Pinyinchī diào

Part of speechDictionary

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Character breakdown

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吃chī

to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear

掉diào

to drop, to fall, to remove

How to learn 吃掉

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Words with the same characters

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吃chī

to eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc); variant of 吃[chi1]

好吃hǎochī

tasty; delicious

吃惊chījīng

to be startled; to be shocked; to be amazed

掉diào

to fall; to drop; to lag behind; to lose; to go missing; to reduce; fall (in prices); to lose (value, weight etc); to wag; to swing; to turn; to change; to exchange; to swap; to show off; to shed (hair); (used after certain verbs to express completion, fulfillment, removal etc)

小吃xiǎochī

street food; snack

大吃一惊dàchī-yìjīng

(idiom) astounded; flabbergasted; taken aback