饭
cooked rice; CL:碗[wan3]; meal; CL:頓|顿[dun4]; (loanword) fan; devotee
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Dict coverage rank #552 U+996D
How 饭 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
饣 (semantic, “food”) + 反 (phonetic, fǎn)
How to remember it
meal · Heisig RSH #1155
食 food + 反 against
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 反
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 反 (fǎn) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 反 sound component | fǎn | reverse, opposite; contrary, anti- |
| 板 | bǎn | board, plank; plate, slab; unnatural, stiff |
| 版 | bǎn | printing block, edition; register; volume, version |
| 贩 | fàn | merchant, peddler; to deal in, to trade |
| 扳 | bān | to drag, to pull; to twist |
| 坂 | bǎn | hillside, slope |
| 阪 | bǎn | hillside, slope |
| 舨 | bǎn | sampan, wooden boat |
| 钣 | bǎn | metal plate; sheet metal |
| 畈 | fàn | field; farm |
Words containing 饭
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白米饭 | bái mǐ fàn | cooked white rice |
| 中饭 | zhōng fàn | lunch |
| 白饭 | bái fàn | plain cooked rice; rice with nothing to go with it |
| 饭后服用 | fàn hòu fú yòng | post cibum (pharm.); to take (medicine) after a meal |
| 吃白饭 | chī bái fàn | to eat plain rice; (fig.) to eat and not pay for it; to sponge off others; to freeload |
| 下饭 | xià fàn | to eat one's rice with an accompanying dish (to make the rice more palatable); (of a dish)… |
| 出饭 | chū fàn | (coll.) (of rice) to rise well (with cooking) |
| 开饭 | kāi fàn | to start eating; to serve a meal |
| 打饭 | dǎ fàn | to get food at a canteen |
| 茶饭无心 | chá fàn wú xīn | see 茶飯不思|茶饭不思[cha2 fan4 bu4 si1] |
| 饭点 | fàn diǎn | mealtime (lunchtime, dinnertime etc) |
| 饭后一支烟，赛过活神仙 | fàn hòu yī zhī yān , sài guò huó shén xiān | have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals (proverb) |
| 长期饭票 | cháng qī fàn piào | (fig.) guarantee of financial support for the rest of one's life |
| 用饭 | yòng fàn | to eat; to have a meal |
| 长城饭店 | Cháng chéng Fàn diàn | Great Wall Hotel (Beijing Sheraton 喜來登|喜来登) |
| 管饭 | guǎn fàn | to provide meals free of charge |
| 饭卡 | fàn kǎ | meal card |
| 年夜饭 | nián yè fàn | reunion dinner on Lunar New Year's Eve (Chinese New Year tradition) |
| 吃干饭 | chī gān fàn | (coll.) to be incompetent; useless; good-for-nothing |
| 饭量 | fàn liàng | amount of food one eats; portion size |