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中餐
Meaning
- lunch
- Chinese meal; Chinese food
Measure word
份 fèn or 顿 dùn
Example sentence
我们点了中餐。
We've ordered Chinese food.
Characters in 中餐
- 中 zhōng within; among; in
- 餐 cān a meal; to eat
中 China plus 餐, meal or cuisine. It exists as a category only against 西餐, and both are about the style of food rather than the time of day.