吃味
chī wèi
Pinyin
Definition
吃味
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- to be jealous
- to envy
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to eat
- 2 to consume
- 3 to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
- 4 to eradicate
- 5 to destroy
- 6 to absorb
- 7 to suffer
- 8 to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [jí])
- 1 blindly
- 2 invariably
- 1 tedious
- 1 a person's preferences
- 2 tastes (in food)
- 3 flavor
- 1 (onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc)
- 2 sound of stammering
Idioms (20)
不听老人言,吃亏在眼前
- 1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
五味俱全
- 1 a complete gamut of all five flavors (idiom); every flavor under the sun
五味杂陈
- 1 with complex feelings (idiom)
兔子不吃窝边草
- 1 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.
又要马儿跑,又要马儿不吃草
- 1 lit. you can't expect the horse to run fast but not let it graze (idiom)
- 2 fig. you can't have your cake and eat it, too