餐

Stroke order

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

• 爘, 𡄄, 𩽐, 𬆝

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

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 餐 (Cantonese)
• 餐 (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• Meal (English)

Historical forms of the character 餐
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *sʰaːn) : phonetic 𣦼 () + semantic 食 (“to eat; meal; food”). Its original meaning was "to swallow".

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m-dz(j)a-k/n/t/s (“to eat; food; to feed; rice”), whence Tibetan ཟ (za, “to eat”); probably also related to 咀 (OC *ʔsaʔ, *zaʔ, “to chew”) (STEDT; Benedict, 1972; Schuessler, 2007).

Alternatively, it may be compared to Tibetan འཚལ ('tshal, “to eat”), ཚལ་མ (tshal ma, “breakfast”) (Coblin, 1986; Schuessler, 2007; Hill, 2019).

餐

1. to eat

   飽餐／饱餐  ―  bǎocān  ―  to eat one's fill

2. meal

   早餐  ―  zǎocān  ―  breakfast (lit. early meal)

   醫院餐／医院餐  ―  yīyuàn cān  ―  hospital meal

   飛機餐／飞机餐  ―  fēijī cān  ―  airline meal

3. cuisine; (type of) food

   西餐  ―  xīcān  ―  Western-style food

   食美國餐／食美国餐 [Cantonese]  ―  sik⁶ mei⁵ gwok³ caan¹   ―  eat American food

4. Classifier for meals.

   一餐飯／一餐饭  ―  yī cān fàn  ―  one meal

   每日食三餐 [Cantonese]  ―  mui⁵ jat⁶ sik⁶ saam¹ caan¹   ―  eat three meals a day

5. (Cantonese, Gan, Xiang) Classifier for beatings, scoldings, etc.

   打人一餐 [Cantonese]  ―  daa² jan⁴ jat¹ caan¹   ―  to give someone a beating

   做餐懵 [Cantonese]  ―  zou⁶ caan¹ mung²   ―  to do a lot for litter in return

6. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Short for 午餐肉 (“luncheon meat”).

   餐蛋麵／餐蛋面 [Cantonese]  ―  caan¹ daan^6-2 min⁶   ―  noodle with luncheon meat and eggs

   餐腿蛋治 [Cantonese]  ―  caan¹ teoi² daan^6-2 zi⁶   ―  luncheon meat, ham, and egg sandwich

• (cuisine): 菜 (cài)
• (classifier for meals):

• (classifier for beatings, scoldings, etc.):

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A04601
• “餐”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Hyōgai kanji)

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• Go-on: さん (san)
• Kan-on: さん (san)
• Kun: たべもの (tabemono, 餐)、くう (kuu, 餐う)

• IPA^(key):

餐(さん) • (san) 

1. eating and drinking

   最後(さいご)の晩(ばん)餐(さん)

   saigo no bansan

   "The Last Supper" (painting by Leonardo da Vinci)

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

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餐: Hán Nôm readings: xun, san, xan

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