Word information
Simplified大吃一惊
Traditional大吃一驚
Pinyindàchī-yìjīng
Part of speechGeneral
HSK 3.06
HSK 2.0Not listed
Chinese word dictionary
大吃一惊
dàchī-yìjīng · (idiom) astounded; flabbergasted; taken aback
Character breakdown
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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]
大dàbig; large; great; older (than another person); eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]); greatly; freely; fully; (dialect) father; (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
大家dàjiāeveryone; influential family; great expert
大学dàxuéthe Great Learning, one of the Four Books 四書|四书[Si4 shu1] in Confucianism; university; college; CL:所[suo3]
大学生dàxuéshēnguniversity student; college student
好吃hǎochītasty; delicious