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晚餐

wǎncān

dinner

HSK 2 · Topic “Food and meals”
A dinner plate with chopsticks
Memory picture

Characters in this word

晚 wǎn

Strokes
11
Radical
日 — sun
Made of
日 sun 免 to spare, to excuse from
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

餐 cān

Strokes
16
Radical
食 — food
How it's built
Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
More about the character 餐

Example phrases

  • 晚餐好了。 Wǎncān hǎo le. Dinner is ready.
  • 我做晚餐。 Wǒ zuò wǎncān. I make dinner.
  • 晚餐吃面。 Wǎncān chī miàn. We eat noodles for dinner.

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