餐厅
cāntīng · HSK 5
restaurant
🍽️ 餐 = eat/meal + 厅 = hall; literally 'meal hall'
餐 (cān) means meal or to eat, and 厅 (tīng) means a hall or large room. Together 餐厅 is the 'meal hall' — a restaurant or dining room. 厅 also appears in 客厅 (living room) and 大厅 (lobby).
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.'
厅 — factory radical 厂 + ding 丁
厅 is the simplified form of 廳, originally written with the 广 (building) radical to mean a hall or large room. The simplified version uses 厂 as the semantic component (a shelter or building) plus 丁 as the phonetic, hinting at the sound tīng. It now means hall, lobby, or government office.
cān tīng · HSK 3
restaurant
🍽️ 餐 = eat/meal + 厅 = hall; literally 'meal hall'
餐 (cān) means meal or to eat, and 厅 (tīng) means hall or large room. Together they form 'meal hall' — a place where meals are served. 厅 also appears in 客厅 (living room) and 大厅 (lobby).
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.'
厅 — factory radical 厂 + ding 丁
厅 is the simplified form of 廳, originally written with the 广 (building) radical to mean a hall or large room. The simplified version uses 厂 as the semantic component (a shelter or building) plus 丁 as the phonetic, hinting at the sound tīng. It now means hall, lobby, or government office.
cān tīng · HSK 3
restaurant
🍽️ 餐 = eat/meal + 厅 = hall; literally 'meal hall'
餐 means meal or to eat (note 食 'food' radical at the bottom). 厅 means hall or large room. Together: the hall where meals happen — a restaurant or dining room.
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.'
厅 — factory radical 厂 + ding 丁
厅 is the simplified form of 廳, originally written with the 广 (building) radical to mean a hall or large room. The simplified version uses 厂 as the semantic component (a shelter or building) plus 丁 as the phonetic, hinting at the sound tīng. It now means hall, lobby, or government office.