(wǎn cān) - dinner, supper, evening meal in Mandarin

wǎncān

Traditional: 晚餐

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Translation

dinner, supper, evening meal

Word origin

A compound of 晚 (wǎn, evening) and 餐 (cān, a meal). The evening meal is dinner, a slightly more formal word than 晚饭.

Origin: compound
Root: 晚 (wǎn, evening) + 餐 (cān, meal)

Stroke order

晚

餐

Examples

七qī。

We have dinner at seven.

丰fēng盛shèng。

Tonight's dinner is very rich.

？

Where would you like to have dinner?

。

Mum is preparing dinner.

。

Thank you for treating me to dinner.

晚餐 (wǎn cān) means dinner or the evening meal. It is a touch more formal than the everyday 晚饭.

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This word is part of lesson 26.