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 to have a meal

2 to eat

3 to make a living

1 to drink

2 variant: 嗬 hē

1 big

2 huge

3 large

4 major

5 great

6 wide

7 deep

8 older (than)

9 oldest

10 eldest

11 greatly

12 very much

13 (dialect) father

14 father's elder or younger brother

1 very auspicious

2 extremely lucky

1 lit. three monks have no water to drink (idiom)

2 fig. everybody's business is nobody's business

3 (If there is one monk, he will fetch water for himself. If there are two, they will fetch water together. But if there are three or more, none will take it upon himself to fetch water.)

1 (idiom) ignore your elders at your peril

1 to fail to see the larger issue (idiom)

2 to fail to grasp the big picture

1 I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time (idiom)

1 minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)