膳 — Chinese character
膳
shàn
meals, provisions
- Pinyin
- shàn
- Radical
- 130 ⾁ (Meat)
- Strokes
- 16
- Components
- 善
- Formation
- pictophonetic — meat; meaning component ⺼; sound component 善
- Japanese
- 膳 as a kanji
Common words with 膳
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 膳食 | shàn shí | meals; food |
| 药膳 (藥膳) | yào shàn | medicinal cuisine |
| 用膳 | yòng shàn | to dine |
| 御膳房 | yù shàn fáng | imperial kitchen |
| 膳食纤维 (膳食纖維) | shàn shí xiān wéi | dietary fiber |
English words written with 膳
膳 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 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.