Sentence #6057158 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted
How 饭馆 is built
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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.
馆guǎnbuilding
饣eat form of 食 · shí
官official · guān
Memory aidFood 饣 with 官 (guān) for the sound: once a guest house, now a public building.
How to write 饭馆
饭 7 strokes · 馆 11 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 饭馆 (fànguǎn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
饭馆 (fànguǎn) means “restaurant”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word.
Say it fànguǎn: fàn with a 4th tone, then guǎn with a 3rd 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, 饭馆 is written 飯館. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 家 (jiā). For example, one restaurant is 一家饭馆 (yì jiā fànguǎn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fanguan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 饭馆 from the suggestions. Typing fanguan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
饭馆 is an HSK 3.0 Level 2 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 2 word list. It is not on the older 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
馆guǎn3rd tone, dipping
