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膳 shàn meals

meals; provisions

How to remember 膳: 月 meat + 善 good = meals. At summer camp the kids cheer when the cook brings meat and good bread for the day's meals.

  • HSK 9
  • 16 strokes
  • Radical ⺼

Component breakdown

膳 = 月 meat + 善 good

  • 月 meat
  • 善 good
The Gushi story

At summer camp the kids cheer when the cook brings meat and good bread for the day's meals.

How it is used

  • Formal word for meals/food provisions - 膳食 (shànshí) meals/diet, 用膳 (yòngshàn) to dine (elevated), 膳宿 (shànsù) board and lodging.
  • Register is formal/institutional (menus, hotels, health guidance); ordinary speech uses 饭 (fàn).

Words with 膳