| 早餐 | zǎo cān | breakfast / CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4] |   |
| 早点 | zǎo diǎn | breakfast | |
| 过早 | guò zǎo | premature / untimely / (dialect) to have breakfast / breakfast | |
| 早饭 | zǎo fàn | breakfast / CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4],餐[can1] | |
| 饔 |  yōng | (literary) cooked food / breakfast | |
| 纳豆 | nà dòu | nattō, a type of fermented soybean, popular as a breakfast food in Japan | |
| 灭此朝食 | miè cǐ zhāo shí | lit. not to have breakfast until the enemy is destroyed / anxious to do battle (idiom) | |
| 朝饔夕飧 | zhāo yōng xī sūn | lit. breakfast in the morning and supper in the evening (idiom) / fig. to do nothing but eat and drink | |
| 饔飧 | yōng sūn | (literary) lit. breakfast and supper / fig. cooked food | |
