Lunch in Chinese
lunch · HSK 1
午饭
- 午 noon
- 饭 meal
Counted with 顿: 一顿午饭
我们十二点吃午饭。 We have lunch at twelve.
Other ways to say lunch
More words with 午 or 饭
How do you say lunch in Chinese?
Lunch in Chinese is 午饭 (wǔ fàn). You can also say 午餐 (wǔ cān), 中餐 (zhōng 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.