HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Food

早饭 zǎofàn “breakfast” in Chinese

Traditional 早飯

What 早饭 means

  1. breakfast

Measure word 份 fèn or 顿 dùn · 一份早饭 yí fèn zǎofàn

How to say 早饭

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale早zǎo3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale饭fàn4th tone, falling

早饭 in a sentence

  1. 我还没有吃早饭。

    Wǒ hái méiyǒu chī zǎofàn.

    I haven’t had breakfast yet.

    Sentence #1516221 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 早饭准备好了。

    Zǎofàn zhǔnbèi hǎo le.

    Breakfast is ready.

    Sentence #782920 from Tatoeba

  3. 我喜欢和你一起吃早饭。

    Wǒ xǐhuan hé nǐ yìqǐ chī zǎofàn.

    I like having breakfast with you.

    Sentence #8584878 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 早饭 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 早 (zǎo) with each of its parts in a different colour
早zǎoearly
  • 日sun · rì
  • 十ten · shí
The character 饭 (fàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
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 早饭

早 6 strokes · 饭 7 strokes

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

Words related to 早饭

Words with 早

早zǎo · early早上zǎoshang · morning迟早chízǎo · sooner or later及早jízǎo · as early as possible

Words with 饭

饭fàn · cooked rice饭店fàndiàn · restaurant米饭mǐfàn · cooked rice晚饭wǎnfàn · evening meal午饭wǔfàn · lunch做饭zuòfàn · to prepare a meal饭馆fànguǎn · restaurant

More words: Food & Drink

饭fàn · cooked rice面条儿miàntiáor · noodles晚饭wǎnfàn · evening meal午饭wǔfàn · lunch牛奶niúnǎi · milk鸡蛋jīdàn · egg西瓜xīguā · watermelon羊肉yángròu · lamb

FAQs

早饭 (zǎofàn) means “breakfast”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it zǎofàn: zǎo 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, 早饭 is written 早飯. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 份 (fèn) or 顿 (dùn). For example, one breakfast is 一份早饭 (yí fèn zǎofàn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type zaofan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 早饭 from the suggestions. Typing zaofan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
早饭 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.