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Chinese symbol for “supper”

晚饭
wǎn fàn
Traditional: 晚飯
evening meal; dinner; supper; measure word: 份 (fèn), 顿 (dùn), 次 (cì), 餐 (cān)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for supper is 晚饭 (wǎn fàn), defined as: evening meal; dinner; supper; measure word: 份 (fèn), 顿 (dùn), 次 (cì), 餐 (cān).

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

晚 wǎn
night, evening; late
radical 72 ⽇ · 11 strokes
饭 fàn
meal, food; cooked rice
radical 184 ⾷ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “supper”

WordPinyinMeaning
飧sūn(literary) supper
夜饭 (夜飯)yè fàn(dialect) dinner; supper

Related words

Other words that share a character with 晚饭.

WordPinyinMeaning
晚上wǎn shangevening; night
今晚jīn wǎntonight
昨晚zuó wǎnyesterday evening; last night
晚安wǎn ānGood night!; Good evening!
夜晚yè wǎnnight; 个 (gè)
晚间 (晚間)wǎn jiānevening; night
吃饭 (吃飯)chī fànto have a meal; to eat
饭店 (飯店)fàn diànrestaurant; hotel

See also: Japanese symbol for “supper”.

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.