吃饭

to have a meal / to eat / to make a living

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])

variant of 吃[chi1]

cooked rice / CL:碗[wan3] / meal / CL:頓|顿[dun4] / (loanword) fan / devotee

lit. to eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body (idiom) / fig. to act according to actual circumstances

to eat depending on the dish (idiom); fig. to act according to actual circumstances / to live within one's means

eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)

lit. to eat depending on the dish (idiom) / fig. to act according to actual circumstances

"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC

eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body (idiom); to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure / to act according to actual circumstances / to live within one's means