Chinese Character Wiki
餐

cān

eat

Phonosemantic compound. 食 represents the meaning and 𣦼 represents the sound.

Components
食 meaning component

食  Meaning component

shí, sì

  

eat

𣦼 sound component

𣦼  Sound component

cán

  

dilapidated

Evolution

餐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
餐 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
餐 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
餐 Clerical script Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)

Clerical script

Jin dynasty (266-420 AD)
餐 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

餐  

cān

eat, dine; meal; food; to eat; classifier for meals

Most common words with 餐
Freq.
Word
Meaning

晚餐

dinner

餐

meal

早餐

breakfast

餐厅

dining hall

午餐

lunch

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 57.1360% of movies

619th most common character in movies

1465th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+9910

Shuowen

“餐，吞也。从食，聲。湌，餐或从水。”


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