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早餐

zǎocān

breakfast

HSK 2 · Topic “Food and meals”
A breakfast bowl and cup
Memory picture

Characters in this word

早 zǎo

Strokes
6
Radical
日 — sun
Made of
日 sun 十 ten, tenth
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

  • 早餐好了。 Zǎocān hǎo le. Breakfast is ready.
  • 我吃早餐。 Wǒ chī zǎocān. I eat breakfast.
  • 早餐很香。 Zǎocān hěn xiāng. Breakfast smells good.

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