HSK 4 · Places

餐厅 cāntīng “dining hall” in Chinese

Traditional 餐廳

What 餐厅 means

  1. dining hall
  2. dining room
  3. restaurant

Measure word 间 jiān or 家 jiā · 一间餐厅 yì jiān cāntīng

How to say 餐厅

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale餐cān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale厅tīng1st tone, high and level

餐厅 in a sentence

  1. 他们在餐厅里看菜单。

    Tāmen zài cāntīng lǐ kàn càidān.

    They’re looking at the menu in the restaurant.

    Sentence #2200447 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 餐厅的饭很便宜，而且很好吃。

    Cāntīng de fàn hěn piányi, érqiě hěn hǎochī.

    The food in the dining hall is cheap, and it’s tasty too.

    Sentence #13549418 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 顺便问一下，餐厅晚上几点钟开始营业？

    Shùnbiàn wèn yíxià, cāntīng wǎnshang jǐ diǎn zhōng kāishǐ yíngyè?

    By the way, what time does the restaurant open in the evening?

    Sentence #420452 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 餐厅 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 餐 (cān) with each of its parts in a different colour
餐cānmeal
  • 歺evil · cān
  • 又again · yòu
  • 食eat · shíMeaning part
The character 厅 (tīng) with each of its parts in a different colour
厅tīnghall
  • 厂cliff · hǎn
  • 丁part of the characterSound part

How to write 餐厅

餐 16 strokes · 厅 4 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 餐厅

Words with 厅

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FAQs

餐厅 (cāntīng) means “dining hall” or “dining room”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it cāntīng: cān with a 1st tone, then tīng with a 1st 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, 餐厅 is written 餐廳. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 间 (jiān) or 家 (jiā). For example, one dining hall is 一间餐厅 (yì jiān cāntīng).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type canting with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 餐厅 from the suggestions. Typing canting into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
餐厅 is an HSK 4 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.