吃亏 meaning and pronunciation

吃亏
Simplified word
吃虧
Traditional word

吃亏 English definition

chī kuī
  • to suffer losses
  • to come to grief
  • to lose out
  • to get the worst of it
  • to be at a disadvantage
  • unfortunately

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  • 吃 (chī): 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]);
  • 亏 (kuī): deficiency; deficit; luckily; it's lucky that...; (often ironically) fancy that...;