早餐

Character by character

• 早zǎo6 strokesHSK 1early; soon; morning
• 餐cān16 strokesHSK 2eat, dine; meal; food

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Example sentences

• 你早餐吃什么？

  Nǐ zǎo cān chī shén me

  What do you have for breakfast?

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 早餐. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 早zǎoHSK 1

  early; morning; Good morning!; long ago; prematurely

• 早上zǎo shangHSK 1

  early morning

• 早就zǎo jiùHSK 2

  already at an earlier time

• 餐cānHSK 6

  meal; to eat; classifier for meals

• 早晨zǎo chénHSK 2

  early morning; also pr. [zǎo chen]

• 餐厅cān tīngHSK 5

  dining hall; dining room; restaurant

• 晚餐wǎn cānHSK 2

  evening meal; dinner

• 午餐wǔ cānHSK 2

  lunch; luncheon

• 早已zǎo yǐHSK 3

  for a long time; long since; (dialect) in the past

• 早期zǎo qīHSK 5

  early period; early phase; early stage

• 餐馆cān guǎnHSK 5

  restaurant

• 一早yī zǎoHSK 7

  early in the morning; at dawn

• 早饭zǎo fànHSK 1

  breakfast

• 迟早chí zǎoHSK 7

  sooner or later

• 一大早yī dà zǎoHSK 7

  at dawn; at first light; first thing in the morning

• 早晚zǎo wǎnHSK 6

  morning and evening; (dialect) some time in the future; some day

• 早日zǎo rìHSK 7

  soon; at an early date; the early days; the past

• 餐桌cān zhuōHSK 7

  dining table; dinner table

• 提早tí zǎoHSK 7

  ahead of schedule; sooner than planned; to bring forward (to an earlier time)

• 用餐yòng cānHSK 7

  to eat a meal

• 尽早jǐn zǎoHSK 7

  as early as possible

• 快餐kuài cānHSK 2

  fast food; snack; quick meal

• 餐饮cān yǐnHSK 5

  food and beverage; catering; repast

• 套餐tào cānHSK 4

  set meal; (fig.) product or service package (e.g. for a cell phone subscription)