吃乾飯

(coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing

Characters and words in 吃乾飯

chī = 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])
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chī = ch + Ø1
qián = qi + an2
old variant of 乾[qian2]
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qián = qi + an2
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qián = qi + an2
one of the Eight Trigrams 八卦[ba1 gua4], symbolizing heaven / male principle / ☰ / ancient Chinese compass point: 315° (northwest)
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qián = qi + an2
gān = g + an1
dry / dried food / empty; hollow / taken in to nominal kinship; adoptive; foster / futile; in vain / (dialect) rude; blunt / (dialect) to cold-shoulder
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plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
fàn = f + an4
cooked rice / CL:碗[wan3] / meal / CL:頓|顿[dun4] / (loanword) fan / devotee
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