早餐
HSK 4 (exam 2025)HSK 2 (2021)
早餐 (zǎocān) · breakfast
早餐 (zǎocān) means “breakfast”. It is written with 2 characters: 早 (early) + 餐 (to eat). It is an HSK 4 word in the current exam syllabus (2025).
How 早餐 is built
The characters
早 zǎo · early
What 早 is made of
- 日rì — sun; day
- 口kǒu — mouth
- 冂 — frame
- 一 — horizontal stroke
- 一 — horizontal stroke
- 口kǒu — mouth
- 十 — ten
- 一 — horizontal stroke
- 丨 — vertical stroke
Origin hint: The first rays 十 of the sun 日 (from the Make Me a Hanzi dataset; treat as a memory aid where history is uncertain)
餐 cān · to eat
What 餐 is made of
- 歺è — evil
- ⺊ — structural part
- 丨 — vertical stroke
- 夕xī — evening
- 勹bāo — wrap shape
- 丶 — dot
- ⺊ — structural part
- 又yòu — (once) again
- 食shí — food
- 人rén — person
- 良liáng — good
- 丶 — dot
- 艮gěn — blunt
Origin hint: food (from the Make Me a Hanzi dataset; treat as a memory aid where history is uncertain)
Example sentences
我七点吃早餐。Wǒ qī diǎn chī zǎocān.I eat breakfast at seven.
你早餐喝什么？Nǐ zǎocān hē shénme?What do you drink at breakfast?
Questions about 早餐
What does 早餐 mean?
早餐 (zǎocān) means “breakfast”.
How do you pronounce 早餐?
早餐 is pronounced zǎocān.
Which HSK level is 早餐?
早餐 is in HSK 4 (exam 2025) and HSK 2 (2021).
Related words
- 早饭zǎofànbreakfast
- 早上zǎoshangearly morning
- 早晨zǎochénearly morning
- 早就zǎojiùlong ago
- 早已zǎoyǐlong ago
- 迟早chízǎosooner or later
- 及早jízǎoas early as possible
- 早zǎoearly
- 快餐kuàicānfast food
- 晚餐wǎncāndinner
Learn 早餐 with its group
It is part of HSK 2 (2021) · Group 4: a short group with quick checks and spaced repeats.