午餐

Character by character

• 午wǔ4 strokesHSK 1seventh earthly branch
• 餐cān16 strokesHSK 2eat, dine; meal; food

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 午餐. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 下午xià wǔHSK 1

  afternoon; p.m.

• 上午shàng wǔHSK 1

  morning

• 中午zhōng wǔHSK 1

  noon; midday

• 餐cānHSK 6

  meal; to eat; classifier for meals

• 早餐zǎo cānHSK 2

  breakfast

• 餐厅cān tīngHSK 5

  dining hall; dining room; restaurant

• 晚餐wǎn cānHSK 2

  evening meal; dinner

• 午饭wǔ fànHSK 1

  lunch

• 餐馆cān guǎnHSK 5

  restaurant

• 餐桌cān zhuōHSK 7

  dining table; dinner table

• 用餐yòng cānHSK 7

  to eat a meal

• 快餐kuài cānHSK 2

  fast food; snack; quick meal

• 餐饮cān yǐnHSK 5

  food and beverage; catering; repast

• 套餐tào cānHSK 4

  set meal; (fig.) product or service package (e.g. for a cell phone subscription)

• 中餐zhōng cānHSK 2

  lunch; Chinese meal; Chinese food

• 午睡wǔ shuìHSK 2

  to take a nap; siesta

• 就餐jiù cānHSK 7

  to dine

• 野餐yě cānHSK 7

  picnic; to have a picnic

• 西餐xī cānHSK 2

  Western-style food

• 风餐露宿fēng cān lù sùHSK 7

  lit. to eat in the open air and sleep outdoors (idiom); fig. to rough it

• 端午节duān wǔ jiéHSK 6

  Dragon Boat Festival (5th day of the 5th lunar month)