吃席

Traditional form:

吃席

Pinyin (reading):

chīxí

Definitions:

• to attend a banquet (funeral, wedding etc)
• (neologism c. 2020) (slang) (jocular) lit. to attend sb's funeral banquet (used to imply that things are going to go badly for sb)

Characters:

• 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
• 席 - seat, place; mat; banquet; to take a seat

Traditional characters:

• 吃 - to eat; to drink; to suffer, to endure, to bear
• 席 - seat, place; mat; banquet; to take a seat