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饭fàncooked rice
饣eat form of 食 · shíMeaning part
反reverse · fǎnSound part
饣 hints at the meaning (eat); 反 (fǎn) hints at the sound. Compare it with fàn.
店diàninn; old-style hotel
广shelter · guǎngMeaning part
占to divine · zhānSound part
广 hints at the meaning (shelter); 占 (zhān) hints at the sound. Compare it with diàn.
How to write 饭店
饭 7 strokes · 店 8 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 饭店 (fàndiàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
饭店 (fàndiàn) means “restaurant, hotel”. It is an HSK 1 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it fàndiàn: fàn with a 4th tone, then diàn 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, 饭店 is written 飯店. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 家 (jiā). For example, one restaurant is 一家饭店 (yì jiā fàndiàn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fandian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 饭店 from the suggestions. Typing fandian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
饭店 is an HSK 1 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.
饭fàn4th tone, falling
