Chinese

晚餐

wǎncān
supper; dinner (evening meal)
  • HSK 2

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Origin

; mental deficiency

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Lineage

  • characterChinese晚 “evening; night”
    • meaningChinese日 “Sun”
    • soundChinese免 “to take off; to remove from the body”
  • characterChinese餐 “to eat”
    • soundChinese𣦼
    • meaningChinese食 “to eat; to have a meal; to take in”
      • ideaChinese亼 “mouth”
        • ideaChinese入 “to enter; to go into”
        • ideaChinese一 “one”
      • ideaChinese皀 “Prepared food, a vessel full of food (as in 即 and 既, in which is simplified)”

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