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to have a meal / to eat / to make a living
HSK 1
lunch / Chinese meal; Chinese food / CL: , 頓|顿
HSK 2
evening meal; dinner / CL: , 頓|顿,
HSK 2
(of a restaurant) to provide a takeout or home delivery meal / takeout (business) / takeout (meal)
HSK 2
evening meal / dinner / supper / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *道* | 道* | *道
road; path (CL:條|条,) / (bound form) way; reason; principle / (bound form) a skill; an art; a specialization / (Daoism) the Way; the Dao / to say (introducing a direct quotation, as in a novel) / (bound form) to express; to extend (polite words) / classifier for long thin things (rivers, cracks, shadows etc), barriers (walls, doors etc), questions (in an exam etc), commands, courses in a meal, steps in a process / (old) circuit (administrative division)
HSK 2
fast food / snack / quick meal
HSK 2
to prepare a meal / to cook
HSK 2
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  *饭* | 饭* | *饭
cooked rice / CL: / meal / CL: 頓|顿 / (loanword) fan / devotee
HSK 1
set meal / (fig.) product or service package (e.g. for a cell phone subscription)
HSK 4
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  *请* | 请* | *请
to ask / to invite / please (do sth) / to treat (to a meal etc) / to request
HSK 1
meal in a partitioned box
HSK 5
an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
HSK 7-9
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  *顿* | 顿* | *顿
to stop / to pause / to arrange / to lay out / to kowtow / to stamp (one's foot) / at once / classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
HSK 3
afternoon tea (light afternoon meal, typically pastries with tea or coffee)
soybean meal
food / meals
HSK 7-9
to have three meals a day
to bring under control / to regulate / to restore to good condition / (coll.) to fix (a person) / to prepare (a meal etc)
HSK 6
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  *餐* | 餐* | *餐
meal / to eat / classifier for meals
HSK 6
home delivery of meal
convenient / handy / easy / bento (a meal in a partitioned box) / lunchbox
food expenses / board expenses / meals (cost)
to eat a meal
HSK 7-9
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
to go to the kitchen (to prepare a meal) / to cook
to dine; to have one's meal
HSK 7-9
dishes with generous amounts of meat and fish / lavish meal
to eat one's meal
set meal
unable to get anything to eat / to miss a meal
HSK 7-9
to do a little something as a token of one's appreciation / to express one's gratitude or esteem by treating sb to a meal or presenting a gift
set meal (esp. in a Japanese restaurant)
leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc)
cafeteria meal specially prepared for a group of visitors / set meal
(idiom) to skip one's sleep and meals; to be completely wrapped up in one's work
HSK 7-9
working meal
meal cooked in a large pot / communal meal / (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
(of a restaurant etc) to serve the meal; to dish out the food
the meal is remembered long after the wait is forgotten / the good things in life are worth waiting for
buffet / self-service meal
to serve a meal
sumptuous meal; banquet
to eat one's fill / to have a good meal
to join up with sb / to become partner / to take meals regularly in cafeteria
to cook a meal over a campfire (usu. for a group of people on an outing) / cookout
HSK 7-9
to eat / to have a meal
meal; food (esp. as provided by a service, e.g. airline, restaurant or institution)
to eat individual meals (rather than taking one's food from plates served to everyone at the table)
to heat up by itself; (attributive) self-heating (esp. of meal kits heated with a water-activated pack)
food and lodging / to stay (at some place) and eat meals (there)
(coll.) to have a meal
(lit. and fig.) meal ticket
(at a restaurant) to order a meal / (of a waiter) to take an order
brocade garments, jade meals (idiom); a life of luxury / extravagance
there is no gain without a loss (idiom) / there is no such thing as a free meal
to appear in court for trial (old) / (of Buddhist monks) to have a meal together in the temple hall
light meal; snack
(coll.) to mooch a meal
so dedicated as to forget one's meals (idiom)
fish meal
to have an extra meal / snack
vegetarian meal / vegetarian diet
"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC
ready-made meal
in-flight meal
walk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life (proverb)
food / dish / meal
meals; food
HSK 7-9
(coll.) (of an actor with a bit part) to receive a boxed meal when one's job is done (phrase used e.g. by movie viewers when a character dies)
bone meal
unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships / fig. poor-tasting meal
great meal fit for dragon's son (idiom); sumptuous banquet
communal meal / formal dinner of club or group
cold meal / cold food
nibbles / snacks between meals
suspended meal (Tw)
to have a meal
meal card
(coll.) to serve time in prison; (Tw) (sarcastic) to live off the prison system (getting free meals)
meal replacement
incomplete meal of a single dish / meat or vegetable dish without rice or wine / rice without meat or vegetables
tasty meal / to eat a satisfying meal
to eat three square meals a day and do no work (idiom) / to be sated with food and remain idle
leftovers from a meal / fig. remnants handed down from others
postpartum care center (a facility providing services such as professional care and nutritionally balanced meals for mothers during the traditional month of rest after giving birth)
leftovers from a meal
have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals (proverb)
cheat meal
post cibum (pharm.) / to take (medicine) after a meal
to have a large and sumptuous meal (traditionally on the 1st and 15th of each month)
to prepare meals / chef
to get or supply meals for a monthly rate; to board; to provide board
to cadge a meal
a good meal / sumptuous food
feeling full from drinking a lot of water or consuming a liquid-heavy meal
meal replacement
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  *伙* | 伙* | *伙
meals (abbr. for 伙食) / variant of 夥|伙
HSK 4
(regular) meal / full meal / main course
to go without meals (due to poverty or scarcity)

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