Chinese Character 餐 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

餐 meaning[3] in English

Meal.

To Eat.

Classifier For Meals.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are (𣦼) , and to eat (食)

Its radical[1] is: (shi2) which means: To Eat, Food, Animal Feed, Eclipse, .shi2to eat

In cangjie it is written with YEOIV

How to write 餐

To writecan1meal you should write a combination of 𣦼can2 , shi2to eat arranged in a shape:

𣦼 + =

餐 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 餐 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:can1 Shape:
Meaning[3]: Meal . To Eat . Classifier For Meals

𣦼
Pinyin:can2

Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: To Eat . Food . Animal Feed . Eclipse

Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]

Pinyin:liang2 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Good . Very . Very Much

Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]

Pinyin:gen3
Meaning[3]: Blunt . Tough . Chewy

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 餐in English or Chinese