Hanzi Chinese Characters vs Japanese Kanji

@chocoluvluv says:

Traditional Chinese 食 should be the world for eat which is same as Japanese (as Japanese borrowed traditional Chinese on their language) while 吃 been applying as eat from when Chinese has implemented Mandarin 200 years ago.

Western learner can just talk to someone who can speak Cantonese and you will be surprised most of the Chinese characters are matching meaning with those of Japanese. If you can talk to a Hokkienese you will be shocked by lots of the Chinese pronunciations are the same by reason that Japanese borrowed Chinese in their language during Sung dynasty when the official language then should probably pronouncing closely to Hokkienese.

@tessyrrhaqt says:

I’m Japanese.
Actually, the kanji “吃” is rarely used in this case. We usually spell it as hiragana-only “どもる” instead of “吃もる.”
But “吃” is often used in some idioms such as “吃音症” (kitsuonshou) ‘stuttering'(more formal).
Anyway, in Japanese, “吃” is not used in the sense of ‘to eat.’

@Luciolai0622 says:

I use almost every day 食 for eat like 食飯, and almost never use 吃 for eat, like japanese only use it for stutter