吃大虧

吃
吃
大
大
亏
虧
to cost one dearly / to end disastrously / to pay bitterly

Characters and words in 吃大虧

吃
chi̅ = ch + Ø1
to eat / to consume / to eat at (a cafeteria etc) / to eradicate / to destroy / to absorb / to suffer / to stammer (Taiwan pr. for this sense is [ji2])
吃 = 乞 + 口 : Charlie Chaplin and the beggar are floating in front of the space station. Charlie Chaplin is very hungry and begs the beggar to hand over the beggar's mandarin.
吃
喫
chi̅ = ch + Ø1
variant of 吃[chi1]
吃 = 乞 + 口 : Charlie Chaplin and the beggar are floating in front of the space station. Charlie Chaplin is very hungry and begs the beggar to hand over the beggar's mandarin.
大
dài = d + ai4
see 大夫[dai4 fu5]
大
dà = d + a4
big; large; great / older (than another person) / eldest (as in 大姐[da4 jie3]) / greatly; freely; fully / (dialect) father / (dialect) uncle (father's brother)
大 = 一 + 人 : The big (大), huge (大) robot (mnemonic symbol for 大) is working out in the ashram's bathroom (a4). He's lifting a flute (一) to which Don Quixote (d) and Neanderthal man (人) are clinging.
亏
虧
kui̅ = ku + ei1
deficiency / deficit / luckily / it's lucky that... / (often ironically) fancy that...
亏 = 二 + ㇉ : Mnemonic symbol: a lucky leprechaun. The leprechaun (亏) wants to propose to Karl Koala (ku) and uses the romantic moment in front of the Eiffel Tower (ei1). Unfortunately he has no ring, so he uses a capacitor (二) of which he bent the legs to build a ring. He's quite lucky (亏), because right after he gives the ring to Karl, a lightning bolt (㇉) strikes and hits poor Karl Koala. Had the leprechaun kept the ring, the lightning bolt would have hit him instead.

Words with 吃大虧

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