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Glyph origin
Phono-semantic compound : semantic + phonetic  (OC *kʰɯds, *kʰɯd).

Definitions

 * 1) to eat; to consume
 * 2) to live on
 * 3) to suffer; to endure; to bear
 * 4) to exhaust; to be a strain
 * 5) to drink
 * 6)  to capture
 * 7)  to chow
 * 8) to accept
 * 1) to live on
 * 2) to suffer; to endure; to bear
 * 3) to exhaust; to be a strain
 * 4) to drink
 * 5)  to capture
 * 6)  to chow
 * 7) to accept
 * 1) to drink
 * 2)  to capture
 * 3)  to chow
 * 4) to accept
 * 1) to accept

Usage notes

 * In Cantonese, is the most common term for "eating" and  is considered less polite than the former.
 * When playing mahjong, a player may say this word as a call when forming a chow on another player's discard.

Synonyms








Definitions

 * 1) to stammer; to stutter; to falter

Etymology 1
From.

Affix

 * 1) stammering, stuttering
 * 2) accepting, complying

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  a call for an open, compare

Etymology 3
Possibly a compound of 🇰🇲.

Noun

 * 1) stammering, stuttering
 * 2) a stutterer