lunch in Mandarin

You can remember the meaning of 午饭 with this easy mnemonic:

I usually have lunch around noon (午), but honestly, I'm not really interested in food (饭), I only eat for nutritional purposes.

Using mnemonics to remember the meaning of Chinese characters like can have an enormous impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.

• 午
• 饭

• 午餐
• 吃饭
• 午夜
• 午饭
• 做饭
• 晚饭
• 下午
• 中午
• 早饭
• 饭店
• 上午

The reading of 午饭 is wǔ fàn.

You can remember how to say 午饭 with this useful mnemonic:

I wouldn't (wǔ) think about food like that if I were you, cooking and eating is so much fun (fàn)!

Using mnemonics to remember the reading of Chinese vocabulary like has a huge impact on how long to learn Mandarin it takes.

Learning vocabulary like lunch and the rest of the Mandarin written language can take as little as one year, or as long as a lifetime. Our Mandarin language learners find that using helpful mnemonics can aid retention of Chinese Mandarin vocabulary and characters.

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