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吃亏

chī kuī

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 吃虧

吃亏 (chī kuī) means "to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 吃亏 means

1. to suffer losses
2. to come to grief
3. to lose out
4. to get the worst of it
5. to be at a disadvantage
6. unfortunately

The characters in 吃亏

• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy
• 亏kuīto lose (money); to have a deficit; to be deficient; to treat unfairly

Words starting with 吃亏

• 吃亏上当chī kuī shàng dàngto be taken advantage of

Words containing 吃亏

• 货比三家不吃亏huò bǐ sān jiā bù chī kuīshop around first and you won't get ripped off (idiom)
• 不听老人言，吃亏在眼前bù tīng lǎo rén yán , chī kuī zài yǎn qián(idiom) ignore your elders at your peril
• 货问三家不吃亏huò wèn sān jiā bù chī kuīsee 货比三家不吃亏

Where 吃亏 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Responsibility, Response & Control (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chī kuī correctly.
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