飯

See also 饭

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 食 (“food”) + phonetic 反

Han character

飯 (radical 184 食+4, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人戈竹水 (OIHE), four-corner 8174₇, composition ⿰食反)

1. cooked rice
2. food
3. meal

References

• KangXi: page 1417, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44064
• Dae Jaweon: page 1941, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4444, character 5
• Unihan data for U+98EF

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Cantonese

Hanzi

飯 (Yale faan6)

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Japanese

Noun

飯 (hiragana めし, romaji meshi)

1. cooked rice
2. (informal) meal

   飯を食う

   めしをくう

   meshi o kū

   eat a meal

   Note: this is an informal way to refer to food, and kū is a correspondingly informal way to say "eat."

Kanji

飯 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: はん (han), ぼん (bon)
• Kun: めし (meshi)

Also いい (ii), as in the name 飯村 (いいむら, Iimura), 飯島, 飯山 (Iiyama), 飯窪 （Iikubo）.

Compounds

• 炊飯 (すいはん, suihan)
• 御飯 (ごはん, gohan)
• 朝御飯 (あさごはん, asagohan)
• 昼御飯 (ひるごはん, hirugohan)
• 夕御飯 (ゆうごはん, yûgohan)

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Korean

Hanja

飯 (hangeul 반, revised ban, McCune-Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

Compounds

• 飯饌 (반찬, banchan or panchan)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ fan˥˩ ]

Noun

飯 (traditional, Pinyin fàn, measure word 頓, simplified 饭)

1. cooked rice
2. meal

Compounds

• 飯菜
• 飯鏟
• 飯單
• 飯店, 飯店兒
• 飯館, 飯館兒
• 飯鍋
• 飯盒, 飯盒兒
• 飯局
• 飯來張口，衣來伸手
• 飯粒, 飯粒兒
• 飯量
• 飯門, 飯門兒
• 飯囊
• 飯票, 飯票兒
• 飯鋪, 飯鋪兒
• 飯糗如草
• 飯勺
• 飯時
• 飯食, 飯食兒
• 飯攤, 飯攤兒
• 飯堂
• 飯廳
• 飯桶
• 飯碗
• 飯轍
• 飯莊
• 飯桌, 飯桌兒
• 飯座兒

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Min Nan

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ pŋ˧˧ ]

Noun

飯 (traditional, POJ pn̄g, simplified 饭)

1. cooked rice
2. meal

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Vietnamese

Han character

飯 (phạn)