Sentence #3376539 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 晚饭 is built
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晚wǎnevening
日sun · rì
免to spare · miǎn
Memory aidSun 日 with 免 (miǎn) for the sound: evening, late.
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.
How to write 晚饭
晚 11 strokes · 饭 7 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 晚饭 (wǎnfàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
晚饭 (wǎnfàn) means “evening meal” or “dinner”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it wǎnfàn: wǎn with a 3rd tone, then fàn 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, 晚饭 is written 晚飯. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 份 (fèn) or 顿 (dùn). For example, one evening meal is 一份晚饭 (yí fèn wǎnfàn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type wanfan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 晚饭 from the suggestions. Typing wanfan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
晚饭 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 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.
晚wǎn3rd tone, dipping
饭fàn4th tone, falling
