吃素

chīsù
to be a vegetarian

CEDICT

  1. (figurative) to be weak; to be powerless; to be yielding
  2. to be weak; to be powerless; to be yielding
  3. to live on a vegetarian diet; to be a vegetarian

Wiktionary

吃素食，不吃肉食葷腥。《老殘遊記二編．第六回》：「可是有客時吃葷，無客時吃素，儜沒留心我在葷碗裡仍是夾素菜吃。」《文明小史．第二八回》：「母親鬧差！來的不是教士，是洋兵，他那大砲，一放起來，沒有眼睛的，不曉得那家念佛，那家吃素，是分不清楚的。」也作「吃齋」。

重編國語辭典

  1. 只吃素食，不吃肉類和味道葷腥的食物
  2. 好惹的，容易欺負的

維基詞典

Entry Composition

=1 吃 chī
  1. to eat; to consume
  2. to eat at (a cafeteria etc)
  3. to eradicate; to destroy
  4. to absorb
  5. to suffer (shock, injury, defeat etc)
=1 吃 chī variant of 吃 chī
2 素 sù
  1. raw silk
  2. white
  3. plain, unadorned
  4. vegetarian (food)
  5. essence
  6. nature
  7. element
  8. constituent
  9. usually
  10. always
  11. ever

Containing this entry

吃素的 chīsùde

Related entries

吃齋 chīzhāi
  1. to abstain from eating meat
  2. to be a vegetarian