What about going out for a meal?
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
吃饭
to have a meal
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
to have a meal
02
to eat
03
to make a living
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 吃饭 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 吃饭 appears in 149 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He rarely eats with his family.
Let's eat out tonight.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 吃饭.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 吃饭.
Directly before
- 在吃饭10
- 出去吃饭7
- 去吃饭7
- 你吃饭6
- 饭馆吃饭6
Directly after
- 吃饭了19
- 吃饭吗13
- 吃饭的12
- 吃饭吧5
- 吃饭时4
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 吃饭
What does 吃饭 mean in Chinese?
吃饭 (chīfàn) means to have a meal.
How do you pronounce 吃饭?
吃饭 is pronounced chīfàn.
Is 吃饭 an HSK word?
吃饭 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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