Dining hall in Chinese
dining hall · HSK 4
食堂
- 食 to eat
- 堂 hall
Counted with 个: 一个食堂
我们中午在学校食堂吃饭。 We eat lunch in the school cafeteria.
Other ways to say dining hall
More words with 食 or 堂
How do you say dining hall in Chinese?
Dining hall in Chinese is 食堂 (shí táng). You can also say 餐厅 (cān tīng).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.