飯碗

See also: 饭碗

Chinese

		food; cuisine; cooked rice food; cuisine; cooked rice; meal	bowl; cup
trad. (飯碗)		飯	碗
simp. (饭碗)		饭	碗

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fànwǎn

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄢˋ ㄨㄢˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): faan⁶ wun²
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fan-vón
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pn̄g-óaⁿ / pūiⁿ-óaⁿ
• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶ve-uoe

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fànwǎn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄢˋ ㄨㄢˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fànwǎn
    • Wade–Giles: fan⁴-wan³
    • Yale: fàn-wǎn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fannwoan
    • Palladius: фаньвань (fanʹvanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fän⁵¹ wän²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: faan⁶ wun²
    • Yale: faahn wún
    • Cantonese Pinyin: faan⁶ wun²
    • Guangdong Romanization: fan⁶ wun²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /faːn²² wuːn³⁵/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fan-vón
    • Hakka Romanization System: fan von`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fan⁴ von³
    • Sinological IPA: /fan⁵⁵ von³¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pn̄g-óaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: pn̄g-uánn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pngx'voar
    • IPA (Taipei): /pŋ̍³³⁻¹¹ uã⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pŋ̍⁴¹⁻²² uã⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pŋ̍²²⁻²¹ uã⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pŋ̍³³⁻²¹ uã⁴¹/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pūiⁿ-óaⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: puīnn-uánn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pvuix'voar
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /puĩ²²⁻²¹ uã⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶ve-uoe
    • MiniDict: ve^去 uoe
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³ve-uoe
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /ve²² uø⁴⁴/

Noun

飯碗

1. (literally) bowl of rice; rice bowl
2. (figurative, informal) way of making a living; livelihood; job; career; bread and butter

   飯碗不保／饭碗不保  ―  fànwǎn bù bǎo  ―  to lose career or income

Synonyms

• (livelihood):

• 世故 (shìgù) (archaic)
• 生活 (shēnghuó)
• 生涯 (shēngyá)
• 生產／生产 (shēngchǎn) (archaic)
• 生計／生计 (shēngjì)
• 生路 (shēnglù)

 

Dialectal synonyms of 職業 (“job; occupation; profession”) [map]

Variety	Location	Words edit
Classical Chinese		職, 業
Formal (Written Standard Chinese)		職業, 工作
Mandarin	Taiwan	工作
	Singapore	工, 工作
Cantonese	Guangzhou	工
	Hong Kong	工
	Singapore (Guangfu)	工
Hakka	Miaoli (N. Sixian)	頭路
	Pingtung (Neipu; S. Sixian)	頭路
	Hsinchu County (Zhudong; Hailu)	頭路
	Taichung (Dongshi; Dabu)	頭路
	Hsinchu County (Qionglin; Raoping)	頭路
	Yunlin (Lunbei; Zhao'an)	頭路
Southern Min	Xiamen	頭路, 工課, 穡路
	Quanzhou	頭路, 工課, 穡路
	Jinjiang	頭路
	Zhangzhou	頭路, 工課, 穡路
	Taipei	頭路
	New Taipei (Sanxia)	頭路, 職業
	Kaohsiung	工課, 頭路, 穡頭, 職業
	Yilan	工課, 頭路, 職業
	Changhua (Lukang)	工課, 頭路, 職業
	Taichung	頭路, 工課, 穡頭
	Tainan	工課, 頭路, 穡頭, 職業
	Hsinchu	頭路, 工課
	Kinmen	頭路, 工課
	Penghu (Magong)	工課
	Penang (Hokkien)	工課, 工
	Singapore (Hokkien)	工, 頭路, 工課
	Manila (Hokkien)	頭路
	Jieyang	工課
	Singapore (Teochew)	工, 工課
	Singapore (Hainanese)	工
Wu	Shanghai	工作, 生活, 生意, 行當, 飯碗 figuratively, 飯碗頭 figuratively
	Shanghai (Chongming)	生活, 營生
	Suzhou	行當
	Danyang	生活
	Ningbo	生活, 行當
	Wenzhou	行當
	Jinhua	行當, 事幹, 生活
Note	GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)

Derived terms

• 搶飯碗／抢饭碗 (qiǎngfànwǎn)
• 鐵飯碗／铁饭碗 (tiěfànwǎn)