吃 Stroke Order

not eat / eat nothing / without eating

tasty / delicious

to be startled / to be shocked / to be amazed

to have a surprise (idiom); shocked or startled / gobsmacked

to eat up / to consume

way of eating / how something is eaten / how a dish is prepared / the way a dish is to be cooked

snack / refreshments / CL:家[jia1]

to eat and drink / food and drink

to take medicine

to bear hardships

drink wine

to entail strenuous effort / to toil at a task / strenuous / laborious / strain

drinking water / to obtain water (for daily needs) / to absorb water / draft (of ship)

to stammer / to stutter / also pr. [kou3 ji2]

to feel jealous

popular / in demand / well regarded

to eat (of bird or animal) / to feed

in short supply / dire / tense / critical / hard-pressed / important

no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom) / also written 啞巴吃黃蓮|哑巴吃黄莲 / (often precedes 有苦說不出|有苦说不出[you3 ku3 shuo1 bu5 chu1])

to eat, drink and be merry (idiom) / to abandon oneself to a life of pleasure

to eat and drink as much as one likes / to make a pig of oneself

A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit

Eat a bite

to go dining, wining, whoring and gambling / to lead a life of dissipation

lit. eating away next year's food in advance / fig. to dip into the next month's check / live now, pay later

to fall flat on one's face (vulgar)

to have a meal / to eat / to make a living

happy to partake but not prepared to do any work (idiom) / all take and no give

live on sb. while helping others secretly

to bring trouble on oneself