Day 11: Meal Times! Mandarin Words for Meals & Times ☀️🌙

welcome to Day 10 of our 30-Day Thematic Chinese Word Challenge!

You’re doing brilliantly! After learning fruits and vegetables, today we focus on Meals and Meal Times (餐和用餐时间 – cān hé yòngcān shíjiān). This includes the words for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus related times and actions!
Let’s learn 10 essential words related to eating times!

Today’s 10 Thematic Words: Meals and Meal Times

When do you eat? Let’s learn how to talk about it. Listen carefully to the pronunciation!

饭 (fàn) – Meal; Cooked Rice
早饭 (zǎofàn) – Breakfast
午饭 (wǔfàn) – Lunch
晚饭 (wǎnfàn) – Dinner
吃 (chī) – To eat (We learned this verb on Day 5!)
喝 (hē) – To drink (We learned this verb on Day 5!)
早上 (zǎoshang) – Morning (early)
中午 (zhōngwǔ) – Noon, Midday
晚上 (wǎnshang) – Evening, Night
点心 (diǎnxin) – Snack; Dessert; Dim Sum

(These words help structure talk about daily routines.)

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Fantastic job on Day 11! Being able to talk about meals is very practical.

Tomorrow’s Theme (Day 12): We’ll be setting the table with Tableware (餐具 – cānjù)! See you then! 再见 (Zàijiàn)!