西 xī
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 西 — west, western, westward
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
西餐
xīcān
Western food
Characters in this word
餐 cān
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 食 — food
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 我爱西餐。 Wǒ ài xīcān. I love Western food.
- 西餐很好吃。 Xīcān hěn hǎochī. Western food is very tasty.
- 今天吃西餐。 Jīntiān chī xīcān. We eat Western food today.