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 drink

2 variant: 嗬 hē

1 (onom.) sound of muffled laughter (chuckling, tittering etc)

2 sound of stammering

1 to finish eating

1 to eat up

2 to consume

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 A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow (idiom); One shouldn't do anything to harm one's neighbors.

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

1 Fall into the moat and you'll be wiser next time (idiom); One only learns from one's mistakes.