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吃饭
Meaning
- to have a meal
- to eat
- to make a living
Example sentence
去吃饭吧。
Let's go to eat.
Characters in 吃饭
吃 to eat plus 饭, a meal. A verb-object pair, so it splits — 吃了饭, 吃过饭 — and it means eating in general, not eating rice.