早饭
zǎo fàn
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 早飯
Breakfast, the first meal of the day. You 吃早饭, 'eat breakfast'. The three meals share one pattern, a time of day plus 饭 'meal': 早饭, 午饭, 晚饭. On menus and signs you will also see 早餐, a more formal word for the same meal.
Bữa sáng, bữa ăn đầu tiên trong ngày. Ăn sáng là 吃早饭. Ba bữa theo cùng một khuôn, buổi + 饭 (bữa ăn): 早饭, 午饭, 晚饭 — như “bữa sáng, bữa trưa, bữa tối” nhưng đặt buổi lên trước. 早餐 cũng là bữa sáng, nhưng trang trọng hơn.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “早饭” mean?
Breakfast, the first meal of the day. You 吃早饭, 'eat breakfast'. The three meals share one pattern, a time of day plus 饭 'meal': 早饭, 午饭, 晚饭. On menus and signs you will also see 早餐, a more formal word for the same meal. Literally: early meal
Is “早饭” formal or informal?
早饭 is generally neutral.