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[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
This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |
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吔飯 jaak3 faan6 = to eat 粵 飯焦 faan6 ziu1 = scorched rice at bottom of rice pot 粵 白飯 baak6 faan6 = plain cooked rice 食飯 sik6 faan6 = to have a meal 粵 炒飯 caau2 faan6 = fried rice 飯店 faan6 dim3 = restaurant; hotel 飯桶 faan6 tung2 = good-for-nothing; slacker 粵 晚飯 maan5 faan6 = dinner 煮飯 zyu2 faan6 = 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) |
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Showing all 22 examples containing 飯
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]
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"]
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.]
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.
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. Legend 國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese. 粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese. |