餐
cān · HSK 6
meal
🍽️ cān = meal/dining; measure word for meals and events like banquets
餐 decomposes into 歺 (bone remnants) + 又 (hand) + 食 (eat), an etymology of eating. Used as a measure word for meals: 一餐饭 = one meal. Sounds like 'tsahn'.
餐 — 歺 (bone fragment) + 又 (hand) + 食 (food)
Originally a phono-semantic compound showing a hand (又) taking food from bones (歺), with 食 (food) as the meaning component. The top portion 'cǎn' provides the sound, while 食 indicates the meaning of eating. Over time it came to mean 'meal' or 'to eat.'