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吃
Meaning
- to eat; to consume
- to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
- to eradicate; to destroy
Example sentence
吃过了没？
Have you eaten yet?
The character 吃
吃 is 口, a mouth, beside 乞 for sound, and it takes odder objects than English eating does. 吃饭 is to have a meal of any kind, 吃惊 is to be startled, and 好吃 judges the food rather than the eating.