午餐 (wǔ cān)

Character breakdown

• 午 (wǔ) · 4 strokes

  Pictograph of a pestle used for pounding rice, now written as 杵. The current meaning "noon" is a phonetic loan.

• 餐 (cān) · 16 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 食 represents the meaning and 𣦼 represents the sound.