飯 (faan6 | fan4) : cooked rice

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飯

faan6

fan4

[1] [n] cooked rice; cooked grain for food [2] [n] meal [3] [v] feed [4] [n] profession; means for living

Stroke count: 13

Level: 3

Radical: (#184)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

飯 / 饭

This word has been viewed 30993 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 8th Jul 2009 20:44

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吔飯 jaak3 faan6 ye1 fan4 = to eat 粵

飯焦 faan6 ziu1 = scorched rice at bottom of rice pot 粵

白飯 baak6 faan6 bai2 fan4 = plain cooked rice

食飯 sik6 faan6 = to have a meal 粵

炒飯 caau2 faan6 chao3 fan4 = fried rice

飯店 faan6 dim3 fan4 dian4 = restaurant; hotel

飯桶 faan6 tung2 fan4 tong3 = good-for-nothing; slacker 粵

晚飯 maan5 faan6 wan3 fan4 = dinner

煮飯 zyu2 faan6 zhu3 fan4 = to cook rice; to cook

晏晝飯 aan3 zau3 faan6 = lunch 粵
See all 137 compounds (CantoDict reports 138 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 22 examples containing 飯

你想食麵定係食飯呀？粵
Do you want to eat noodles or rice?

你想吃麵還是吃飯？國
Do you want to eat noodles or rice?

上星期日我同啲朋友一齊食晚飯。粵
Last Sunday, I had dinner with my friends together.

食飯前要先洗手。粵
One should wash one's hands before having a meal.

食完飯先至計啦粵
I'll have dinner first and then sort it out!
[Lit. eat-finish-rice only-then do. Std. Chinese: 吃完飯再計算吧]

你想食飯定食麵呀？粵
Do you want to eat rice or noodles?
[Lit. you want eat rice or eat noodle [particle]?]

飯熟晒咁滯粵
The rice is almost done.

你食咗飯未呀？粵
Have you eaten yet?
[This is also commonly used as a greeting akin to "how are you"?]

中國人係揸筷子食飯嘅。粵
Chinese people are [people who] use chopsticks to have their meals.
["揸" here is actually "to hold"]

食飯係享受。粵
Having a meal is a joy.

阿媽今晚唔煮飯，要食自己。粵
Mum is not going to cook tongiht, so we/I have to have dinner on our/my own.
[Usually mother cooks at home every night. If she does not cook, it implies that she is out at night, so the entire family has to think about the dinner stuff.]

幾時先去食飯呀？粵
When do we go having meal?

搵日一齊食飯啦。粵
Let's have lunch together some day.
[The Cantonese word order 搵日 (some day) 一齊 (together) 食飯 (have lunch) 啦 (let's) is the exact opposite of the English version.]

前日佢哋一齊食咗兩餐飯。粵
They took their meal twice together the day before yesterday.
[Here, 餐 is [i]not[/i] a classifier that modifies the noun 飯. It is a verb measure that quantifies the verb 食.]

你加水太少,就會煲燶飯㗎。粵
If you add too little water, you will burn the rice.
[http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/phorum/read.php?14,134219,134225#msg-134225]

靚女話要同你睇戲，你梗係𦧲飯應啦粵
A pretty girl is willing to catch a movie with you. Surely that is something you wished for.

等埋人齊先開飯粵
Wait till everyone has arrived and then start the meal

你嗱嗱聲做埋啲嘢，然後去食飯啦！粵
You should hurry up and finish your work, so that you can have your meal!

我嗌咗碟炒飯好耐,重未嚟呀! 粵
I've ordered a dish of fried rice a long time ago. But it still hasn't come yet!

電飯煲唔好𠱂响書檯上便。粵
Don't choose to put the rice cooker on the desk.

只有懶漢庸才才會留戀那大鍋飯的年代。國
Only lazybones and mediocre persons could hanker after the days of messing together.

飯唔熟乜滯粵
The rice is not quite cooked enough.

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