HSK 5 · Food

宴会 yànhuì “banquet” in Chinese

Traditional 宴會

What 宴会 means

  1. banquet
  2. feast
  3. dinner party

Measure word 席 xí or 个 gè · 一席宴会 yì xí yànhuì

How to say 宴会

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale宴yàn4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale会huì4th tone, falling

宴会 in a sentence

  1. 她的生日宴会将在明天晚上。

    Tā de shēngrì yànhuì jiāng zài míngtiān wǎnshang.

    Her birthday party is tomorrow evening.

    Sentence #881266 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  2. 在江户时代赏月的宴会非常受欢迎。

    Zài Jiānghù shídài, shǎngyuè de yànhuì fēicháng shòu huānyíng.

    In the Edo period, moon-viewing parties were very popular.

    Sentence #889251 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 宴会 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 宴 (yàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
宴yànto entertain at a banquet
  • 宀roof · mián
  • 妟banquet
The character 会 (huì) with each of its parts in a different colour
会huìcan; to have the skill; to know how to
  • 人person · rén
  • 云cloud · yún

Memory aidPeople 人 getting together to talk 云 (云 meant “to say” in old Chinese): to meet, and to know how.

How to write 宴会

宴 10 strokes · 会 6 strokes

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宴会 (yànhuì) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 宴会 (yànhuì). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 宴会

Words with 会

会huì · can会议huìyì · meeting机会jīhuì · opportunity开会kāihuì · to have a meeting晚会wǎnhuì · evening party一会儿yíhuìr · a while运动会yùndònghuì · sports meet误会wùhuì · to misunderstand约会yuēhuì · appointment聚会jùhuì · party

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FAQs

宴会 (yànhuì) means “banquet” or “feast”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yànhuì: yàn with a 4th tone, then huì with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 宴会 is written 宴會. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 席 (xí) or 个 (gè). For example, one banquet is 一席宴会 (yì xí yànhuì).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yanhui with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 宴会 from the suggestions. Typing yanhui into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
宴会 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.