吃亏 (chīkuī) means Suffers a loss. Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
太老实有时候会 吃亏 。
Tài lǎoshi yǒu shíhou huì chīkuī.
Being too honest can sometimes cost you.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 吃亏
这次买卖我们 吃亏 了。
Zhè cì mǎimai wǒmen chīkuī le.
We lost out on this deal.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 吃亏
他宁肯自己 吃亏 ，也不让朋友为难。
Tā nìngkěn zìjǐ chīkuī, yě bú ràng péngyou wéinán.
He would rather lose out himself than put a friend in a difficult spot.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 宁肯
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Questions about 吃亏
How is 吃亏 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 吃亏 (chīkuī, "Suffers a loss"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 吃亏 an HSK word?
Yes — 吃亏 is on the official HSK 5 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 5 page.
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The dictionary page for 吃亏 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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