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白吃

bái chī

2-character word

What 白吃 means

1. to eat without paying
2. to eat for free

The characters in 白吃

• 白báiwhite; snowy; pure
• 吃chīto eat; to consume; to eat at (a cafeteria etc); to eradicate; to destroy

Example sentences

• 天下没有白吃的午餐。
  There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Words starting with 白吃

• 白吃白喝bái chī bái hēto freeload

Sounds the same

Read bái chī, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 白痴idiocy; idiot

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bái chī correctly.
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