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午饭 (wǔ fàn): meaning and stroke order

午饭 (wǔ fàn) means lunch, CL:份顿,次,餐.

午饭

Simplified
午饭
Traditional
午飯
Pinyin
wǔ fàn

Stroke order of 午饭

午

  • wǔ 7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse; ancient Chinese compass point: 180° (south)
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

饭

  • fàn cooked rice; CL:碗[wan3]
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 飯

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 午饭

  1. wǔ fàn Traditional 午飯
    • lunch
    • CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4],餐[can1]

Radicals of the characters

午
Radical 十 (Kangxi radical 24) · 4 strokes · 𠂉 on top, 十 below
饭
Radical 饣 (Kangxi radical 184) in its simplified form · 7 strokes · 饣 on the left, 反 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

午饭 in our stories

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  • 午饭的时候，苏菲端着一碗汤圆走到奶奶面前，用刚学的温州话说了一句：“阿婆，吃汤圆，甜甜蜜蜜。”

    wǔfàn de shíhou Sūfēi duān zhe yì wǎn tāngyuán zǒu dào nǎinai miànqián yòng gāng xué de Wēnzhōuhuà shuō le yí jù āpó chī tāngyuán tiántián-mìmì

    At lunch Sophie carried a bowl of dumplings to Grandma and said in her newly learned Wenzhou dialect, "Granny, have some tangyuan. Sweet as honey."

    From the story An old bracelet HSK 6

Stories using 午饭

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).