餐 — Chinese character
餐
cān
to eat, to dine; meal, food
- Pinyin
- cān
- Radical
- 184 ⾷ (Eat)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 歺 又 食
- Formation
- pictophonetic — food; meaning component 食
- Japanese
- 餐 as a kanji
Common words with 餐
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 餐厅 (餐廳) | cān tīng | dining hall; dining room |
| 午餐 | wǔ cān | lunch; luncheon |
| 早餐 | zǎo cān | breakfast; measure word: 份 (fèn), 顿 (dùn), 次 (cì) |
| 餐馆 (餐館) | cān guǎn | restaurant; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
| 晚餐 | wǎn cān | evening meal; dinner; measure word: 份 (fèn), 顿 (dùn), 次 (cì) |
| 套餐 | tào cān | set meal; (fig.) product or service package (e.g. for a cell phone subscription) |
| 餐饮 (餐飲) | cān yǐn | food and beverage; catering |
| 用餐 | yòng cān | to eat a meal |
| 餐桌 | cān zhuō | dining table; dinner table; 张 (zhāng) |
| 快餐 | kuài cān | fast food; snack |
| 大餐 | dà cān | sumptuous meal; banquet |
| 餐具 | cān jù | tableware; dinner service |
English words written with 餐
餐 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 2
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.