膳
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meals
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 肉 +12
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 膳
- Common rank
- #3,612
- Unicode
- U+81B3
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 膳
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 膳食纤维 | dietary fiber | |
| 膳魔师 | Thermos (brand) | |
| 用膳 | to dine | |
| 御膳房 | imperial kitchen | |
| 膳食 | meals; food | |
| 药膳 | medicinal cuisine |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 善 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 善 sound part | good, virtuous, charitable, kind | |
| 缮 | to repair, to mend; to transcribe, to rewrite | |
| 蟮 | earthworm | |
| 鳝 | eel | |
| 鄯 | an ancient district in Gansu province |