餐

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 歺又 + semantic 食 ("eat," "meal," "food")

The upper phonetic portion is an obsolete character, formed from 歺 (a variant of 歹) and 又. 歺 is sometimes used as an informal simplification for 餐 itself.

Han character

餐 (radical 184 食+7, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜水人戈女 (YEOIV), four-corner 2773₂)

1. eat, dine
2. meal
3. food

References

• KangXi: page 1419, character 39
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44160
• Dae Jaweon: page 1944, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4455, character 5
• Unihan data for U+9910

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Cantonese

Hanzi

餐 (Yale chaan1)

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Japanese

Kanji

餐

Readings

• On: さん (san), そん (son)
• Kun: たべもの (tabemono), くう (kuu)

Compounds

• 午餐会

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Korean

Hanja

餐 (hangeul 찬, 손, revised chan, son, McCune-Reischauer ch'an, son, Yale chan, son)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

餐 (pinyin cān (can1), Wade-Giles ts'an¹)

Compounds

• 快餐

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Vietnamese

Han character

餐 (xan, xun, san)