Dinner in Chinese
dinner · HSK 1
晚饭
- 晚 evening
- 饭 meal
Counted with 顿: 一顿晚饭
我们七点吃晚饭。 We have dinner at seven.
Other ways to say dinner
More words with 晚 or 饭
How do you say dinner in Chinese?
Dinner in Chinese is 晚饭 (wǎn fàn). You can also say 晚餐 (wǎn cān).
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.