西餐 (xī cān) — Western-style food; Western food

Definition

noun

Western-style foodWestern food

Measure word · 份, 顿

西餐，。
Zhè dùn xī cān hěn hǎo chī, yóu qí shì niú pái.
This Western meal was delicious, especially the steak.
西餐，。
Qǐng gěi wǒ yí fèn xī cān, bú yào shā lā.
Please give me a Western meal without salad.
，西餐。
Tā gèng xǐ huan zhōng cān, bú tài ài chī xī cān.
He prefers Chinese food and doesn't really like Western food.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

西xīWestern

西 (Western) + 餐 (meal) means Western-style food.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

𣦼食餐

Meaning part形符xíngfú

食食shíto eat; meal; food

Sound part声符shēngfú

𣦼

𣦼𣦼餐cān

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

餐 combines 食, meaning food or eating, with 𣦼 as the sound part; it originally meant “to swallow.”

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