吃chīto eat
- Theme
- Verbs
- Level
- First words
- Strokes
- 6
- Syllable
- chi
How 吃 is written
Stroke order matters: it sets the proportions of the character and how a reader will parse it. In the trainer these same boxes reject a stroke drawn out of turn.
Examples
我吃米饭。
Wǒ chī mǐfàn.
I eat rice.
- 我wǒI
- 吃chīto eat
- 米饭mǐfànrice
你想吃什么?
Nǐ xiǎng chī shénme?
What would you like to eat?
- 你nǐyou
- 想xiǎngto want; to think
- 吃chīto eat
- 什么shénmewhat?
Not to be confused with
Characters that look or sound alike. The trainer mixes them into the answer options for exactly that reason — so the difference sticks.
- 乞
- 气
- 喝hēto drink