| 货 | huò | goods; money; commodity; CL:个 |
| 比 | bǐ | (particle used for comparison and "-er than"); to compare; to contrast; to gesture (with hands); ratio; Belgium; Belgian; abbr. for 比利时 |
| 三 | sān | three; 3 |
| 家 | jiā | home; family; classifier for families or businesses; refers to the philosophical schools of pre-Han China; noun suffix for specialists in some activity such as musician or revolutionary, corresponds to English -ist, -er, -ary or -ian; CL:个; surname Jia |
| 不 | bù | (negative prefix); not; no |
| 吃 | chī | to eat; to have one's meal; to eradicate; to destroy; to absorb; to suffer; to exhaust |
| 亏 | kuī | deficiency; deficit; luckily |
| 货比三家 | huò bǐ sān jiā | to comparison shop (idiom); comparison shopping |
| 吃亏 | chī kuī | to suffer losses; to come to grief; to lose out; to get the worst of it; to be at a disadvantage; unfortunately |
