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餐
餐
Translingual
Han character
餐 (radical 184 食+7, 16 strokes, cangjie input 卜水人戈女 (YEOIV), four-corner 27732, composition ⿱𣦼食)
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
 
Chinese
| 
simp. and trad. | 
餐 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (粲) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 餐 | *sʰaːn | 
| 湌 | *sʰaːn | 
| 粲 | *sʰaːns | 
| 燦 | *sʰaːns | 
| 璨 | *sʰaːns | 
| 薒 | *sʰaːns | 
| 殩 | *sʰoːns | 
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰaːn) : phonetic 𣦼 + semantic 食 (“to eat; meal; food”).
The upper phonetic portion is an obsolete character, formed from 歺 and 又. 歺 is sometimes used as an informal simplification for 餐 itself.
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
 - Cantonese (Jyutping): caan1
 - Hakka (Sixian, PFS): chhôn
 - Min Nan (POJ): chhan
 - Wu (Wiktionary): tshe (T1); tshoe (T1)
 
-  Mandarin
-  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
 - Zhuyin: ㄘㄢ
 - Wade-Giles: ts'an1
 - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tsan
 - IPA (key): /t͡sʰa̠n⁵⁵/
 -  
 
 
 -  (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
 -  Cantonese
-  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: caan1
 - Yale: chāan
 - Cantonese Pinyin: tsaan1
 - IPA (key): /t͡sʰɑːn⁵⁵/
 
 
 -  (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
 -  Hakka
-  (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chhôn
 - Hakka Romanization System: con´
 - Hagfa Pinyim: con1
 - IPA: /t͡sʰon²⁴/
 
 
 -  (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
 -  Min Nan
-  (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhan
 - Tâi-lô: tshan
 - Phofsit Daibuun: zhafn
 - IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰan⁴⁴/
 - IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰan³³/
 - IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰan⁴⁴/
 - IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰan⁴⁴/
 - IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰan⁴⁴/
 
 
 -  (Hokkien)
 -  Wu
-  (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: tshe (T1); tshoe (T1)
 - IPA (key): /t͡sʰᴇ⁵³/, /t͡sʰø⁵³/
 
 
 -  (Shanghainese)
 
-  Dialectal data▼
 
| Variety | Location | 餐 | 
|---|---|---|
| Mandarin | Beijing | /t͡sʰan⁵⁵/ | 
| Harbin | /t͡sʰan⁴⁴/ | |
| Tianjin | /t͡sʰan²¹/ | |
| Jinan | /t͡sʰã²¹³/ | |
| Qingdao | /t͡sʰã²¹³/ | |
| Zhengzhou | /t͡sʰan²⁴/ | |
| Xi'an | /t͡sʰã²¹/ | |
| Xining | /t͡sʰã⁴⁴/ | |
| Yinchuan | /t͡sʰan⁴⁴/ | |
| Lanzhou | /t͡sʰɛ̃n³¹/ | |
| Ürümqi | /t͡sʰan⁴⁴/ | |
| Wuhan | /t͡sʰan⁵⁵/ | |
| Chengdu | /t͡sʰan⁵⁵/ | |
| Guiyang | /t͡sʰan⁵⁵/ | |
| Kunming | /t͡sʰã̠⁴⁴/ | |
| Nanjing | /t͡sʰaŋ³¹/ | |
| Hefei | /t͡sʰæ̃²¹/ | |
| Jin | Taiyuan | /t͡sʰæ̃¹¹/ | 
| Pingyao | /t͡sʰɑŋ¹³/ | |
| Hohhot | /t͡sʰæ̃³¹/ | |
| Wu | Shanghai | /t͡sʰø⁵³/ | 
| Suzhou | /t͡sʰø⁵⁵/ | |
| Hangzhou | /t͡sʰẽ̞³³/ | |
| Wenzhou | /t͡sʰa³³/ | |
| Hui | Shexian | /t͡sʰɛ³¹/ | 
| Tunxi | /t͡sʰɔ¹¹/ | |
| Xiang | Changsha | /t͡sʰan³³/ | 
| Xiangtan | /t͡sʰan³³/ | |
| Gan | Nanchang | /t͡sʰan⁴²/ | 
| Hakka | Meixian | /t͡sʰon⁴⁴/ | 
| Taoyuan | /t͡sʰon²⁴/ | |
| Cantonese | Guangzhou | /t͡sʰan⁵³/ | 
| Nanning | /t͡sʰan⁵⁵/ | |
| Hong Kong | /t͡sʰan⁵⁵/ | |
| Min | Xiamen (Min Nan) | /t͡sʰan⁵⁵/ | 
| Fuzhou (Min Dong) | /t͡sʰuaŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Jian'ou (Min Bei) | /t͡sʰuiŋ⁴⁴/ | |
| Shantou (Min Nan) | /t͡sʰaŋ³³/ | |
| Haikou (Min Nan) | /saŋ²³/ | 
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 餐 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| Initial (聲) | 清 (14) | 
| Final (韻) | 寒 (61) | 
| Tone (調) | Level (Ø) | 
| Openness (開合) | Open | 
| Division (等) | I | 
| Fanqie | 七安切 | 
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang  | 
/t͡sʰɑn/ | 
| Pan Wuyun  | 
/t͡sʰɑn/ | 
| Shao Rongfen  | 
/t͡sʰɑn/ | 
| Edwin Pulleyblank  | 
/t͡sʰan/ | 
| Li Rong  | 
/t͡sʰɑn/ | 
| Wang Li  | 
/t͡sʰɑn/ | 
| Bernard Karlgren  | 
/t͡sʰɑn/ | 
| Expected Mandarin Reflex  | 
cān | 
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 餐 | 
| Reading # | 1/1 | 
| No. | 1117 | 
| Phonetic component  | 
粲 | 
| Rime group  | 
元 | 
| Rime subdivision  | 
1 | 
| Corresponding MC rime  | 
餐 | 
| Old Chinese  | 
/*sʰaːn/ | 
| Notes | 聲符皆爲歺又 | 
Definitions
餐
Compounds
Derived terms from 餐
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Japanese
Kanji
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Readings
Compounds
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| 餐 | 
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