中 zhōng
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 丨 — vertical stroke
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
中餐
zhōngcān
Chinese 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
- 我爱吃中餐。 Wǒ ài chī zhōngcān. I love eating Chinese food.
- 中餐很好吃。 Zhōngcān hěn hǎochī. Chinese food is very tasty.
- 今天吃中餐。 Jīntiān chī zhōngcān. We eat Chinese food today.
Related words
- 中 zhōng middle, center; in, during
- 中国 Zhōngguó China
- 中间 zhōngjiān middle; between, among
- 中文 Zhōngwén Chinese (language)
- 中午 zhōngwǔ noon, midday
- 中学 zhōngxué middle school
- 中学生 zhōngxuéshēng middle school student
- 高中 gāozhōng senior high school
- 其中 qízhōng among them
- 心中 xīnzhōng in one's heart
- 中级 zhōngjí intermediate level
- 中年 zhōngnián middle age