吃亏

吃虧
chīkuī
  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

CEDICT

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 亏 kuī
  1. to lose (money); to have a deficit
  2. to be deficient
  3. to treat unfairly
  4. luckily; fortunately; thanks to
  5. (used to introduce an ironic remark about sb who has fallen short of expectations)