Mandarin teaching online about “chi1”

For many people, eating may be the best thing in the world. This kind of people love to try the new restaurant regardless of how long he/she need to queue, look for delicious food regardless of how far between himself/herself and the tasty and even eat more and more regardless of what a fat man he/she is. Hey! I’m not gonna to tell you something delicious in my Mandarin teaching online. I’ll tell you how the word “吃chi1(means eat)” can be used in China.

Of course, we use “eat” to express “吃chi1” mostly. “吃chi1饭fan4(means dining)”、 “吃chi1水shui3果guo3(means eat fruit)”、 “吃chi1面mian4包bao1(eat bread)” are examples(from general Chinese language curriculum). But if you have taken mandarin chinese online classes ap you may know following words: “吃chi1亏kui1(means suffer losses)”、 “吃chi1力li4(means strenuous)”、 “吃chi1板ban3子zi”.

Although “吃亏” refer to suffer losses, but there was a version been told “Suffer losses is a luck” in Chinese. Some Chinese believe that the things you suffer loss will back to you in other ways. The word “吃” of “吃力” refer to use, “力” refer to strength. So “吃力” translates literally as “use strength”. But in Chinese, the word only has been used in the context of hard situation. “吃” also can be passive in form sometimes, like “吃板子”. When I was young, I usually “吃板子” after play a trick on somebody. So what means “吃板子” ? Let me give you a hint, “板子” refer to “plank”. Now you may know, “吃板子” means “be hit by plank”.

As the mystery of Chinese, there are lots of polysemous words in Chinese just like “吃”. So if you have a strong desire to China or you need to use Chinese for job or you just like challenge as Mark Zuckerberg do, you need master Chinese. I hope I can hear your self introduction just like Chinese student self introduction(students always start to study with self introduction in China).