How to say it in Chinese

Restaurant in Chinese

restaurant · HSK 1

饭店 fàn diàn

  1. 饭 fàn meal
  2. 店 diàn shop

Counted with 家: 一家饭店 yì jiā fàndiàn

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Other ways to say restaurant

More words with 饭 or 店

How do you say restaurant in Chinese?

Restaurant in Chinese is 饭店 (fàn diàn). You can also say 饭馆 (fàn guǎn), 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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