7.06Usage: +++++
饭 飯
Meal / Cooked rice
- 吃饭 (chī fàn) To eat / Meal Literal. Eat cooked rice
- 饭碗 (fàn wǎn) Rice bowl / Livelihood
- 饭盒 (fàn hé) Meal box / Bento
- 饭店 (fàn diàn) Restaurant Literal. Meal shop
- 饭局 (fàn jú) Feast / Gathering Literal. Meal situation (that requires attention – In modern lingo, this term refers to extensive meals with superiors/clients or a big group of friends
- 饭桶 (fàn tǒng) Literal. Rice bucket 1. A person who needs to eat rice for every meal or eats a lot of rice 2. Loafer / Bummer – A person who eats more than he/she works
Compound characters or words with 饣Food Radical are usually associated with food or appetite
- 饺子 (jiǎo zi) Dumplings
- 馄饨 (hún tūn) Wanton
- 馅饼 (xiàn bǐng) Meat pie / Pastry
- 饱 (bǎo) Full
- 饿 (è) Hungry
- 饥 (jī) Starving
- 饥饿 (jī è) Starvation
+ PERSONAL NOTE +
Very importantly, 米 (mǐ) refers to grains of uncooked rice while 米饭 (mǐ fàn) refers to a meal of cooked rice – 饭 (fàn) in short. Various types of cooked rice include:
- 炒饭 (chǎo fàn) Fried rice
- 焗饭 (jú fàn) Oven-baked rice
- 煲仔饭 (bāo zǎi fàn) or 砂锅饭 (shā guō fàn) Claypot rice
- 茶泡饭 (chá pào fàn) Tea-soaked rice, reference
- 稀饭 (xī fàn) Chinese porridge / Congee Literal. Diluted rice – rice cooked in broth, also known as 粥 (zhōu). The former is a Northen Chinese term while the latter is a term commonly used in Southern China as well as Southeast Asia.