1 humanity

2 human race

3 mankind

1 to prepare a meal

2 to cook

1 lunch

2 classifier: 份 fèn

3 classifier: 顿 dùn

4 classifier: 次 cì

5 classifier: 餐 cān

1 to have a meal

2 to eat

3 to make a living

1 New Year's Eve family dinner

1 lit. to offer three kinds of tea and six different dishes

2 to be extremely considerate towards guests (idiom)

1 one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom)

2 an empty sack cannot stand upright

1 to excel the common (idiom); surpassing

2 preeminent

3 outstanding

1 to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom)

2 to fail utterly in trying to copy something

3 to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result

1 lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom)

2 fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance