Character Details
| have a meal (to) | Ascii: 21644 | w637 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 吃饭 | chīfàn | tcheuh-fan | 1+4 | 好 (woman + child) + 吃 (口 mouth + 乞 beg) | 吃饭 link | ||||||
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Not Yet Developed | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
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| - Have you eaten; (general greeting) | - Let's eat at 12 o'clock | ||||||||||
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| Compound Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Structure | Construction | ||||||||||
| left‑right; verb‑object | 吃 (mouth + beg) + 饭 (food radical + oppose) | ||||||||||
| You sit at a table as bowls magically fill themselves — “eat a meal.” | |||||||||||