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餐
cān
1. meal
2. to eat
3. classifier for meals
Very Common • Top 1% ✏️ 16 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

餐
cān
to eat, to dine; meal, food
HSK 4 16 丶

Compound Words (20)

中餐
Zhōngcān
Chinese meal
佐餐
zuǒcān
(of food) accompaniment
冷餐
lěngcān
cold meal
分餐
fēncān
separate meals
加餐
jiācān
to have an extra meal
午餐
wǔcān
lunch
大餐
dàcān
great meal
套餐
tàocān
set meal
就餐
jiùcān
to dine
忘餐
wàngcān
to forget one's meals
快餐
kuàicān
fast food
拼餐
pīncān
(of people with tight budget) to enjoy various dishes at the restaurant by ordering the food together and then sharing the costs
早餐
zǎocān
breakfast
晚餐
wǎncān
evening meal
正餐
zhèngcān
(regular) meal
用餐
yòngcān
to eat a meal
盘餐
páncān
side dish
圣餐
shèngcān
Holy communion (of the Christian mass)
聚餐
jùcān
communal meal
西餐
xīcān
Western-style food

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
4
Character Frequency Rank
1,464
Word Frequency Rank
1,180 of 84,292

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