Chinese symbol for “breakfast”
早餐
zǎo cān
breakfast; measure word: 份 (fèn), 顿 (dùn), 次 (cì)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for breakfast is 早餐 (zǎo cān), defined as: breakfast; measure word: 份 (fèn), 顿 (dùn), 次 (cì).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “breakfast”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 早点 (早點) | zǎo diǎn | breakfast |
| 早饭 (早飯) | zǎo fàn | breakfast; measure word: 份 (fèn), 顿 (dùn), 次 (cì), 餐 (cān) |
| 饔 | yōng | (literary) cooked food; breakfast |
| 过早 (過早) | guò zǎo | premature; untimely; (dialect) to have breakfast; breakfast |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 早餐.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 早上 | zǎo shang | early morning; 个 (gè) |
| 早就 | zǎo jiù | already at an earlier time |
| 早已 | zǎo yǐ | for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past |
| 早期 | zǎo qī | early period; early phase; early stage |
| 早晨 | zǎo chén | early morning; also pr. [zao3chen5] |
| 餐厅 (餐廳) | cān tīng | dining hall; dining room |
| 午餐 | wǔ cān | lunch; luncheon |
| 餐馆 (餐館) | cān guǎn | restaurant; measure word: 家 (jiā) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “breakfast”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.