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吃 — stroke order
Watch how to write 吃 (chī) stroke by stroke. 吃 has 6 strokes and means “to eat”. It appears in common words such as 吃飯 (to eat a meal) and 好吃 (tasty). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.
Common words with 吃
The most common words that use 吃 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.
吃飯chīfànto eat a meal好吃hǎochītasty吃完chīwánto finish eating吃掉chīdiàoto eat up小吃xiǎochīsnack吃虧chīkuīto suffer losses
How 吃 is written
- Radical
- 口
- Components
- 口 ＋ 乞
- Formation
- Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 口 and a phonetic component 乞 (mouth).