饭 (飯) fàn

1. fàn noun food; a meal
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '飯' 1b; NCCED '饭' 3; Unihan '飯') For example, 他不吃饭，也不睡觉 'He does not eat and he also does not sleep.' (Ye Shengtao, 1999, p. 4)
2. fàn noun cuisine
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
   Notes: (Unihan '飯')
3. fàn noun cooked rice
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
   Notes: In the sense of 米饭 (GHC '饭' 4; Kroll 2015 '飯' 2; NCCED '饭' 2; Unihan '飯')
4. fàn noun cooked cereals
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink
   Notes: (Ci Yuan '飯' 1; Kroll 2015 '飯' 2; NCCED '饭' 1)
5. fàn verb to eat
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 吃 (Ci Yuan '飯' 2; GHC '饭' 1; Kroll 2015 '飯' 1)
6. fàn verb to serve people with food
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (GHC '饭' 2; Kroll 2015 '飯' 1a)
7. fàn noun jade or rice placed in the mouth of a corpse
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '飯' 3)
8. fàn verb to feed animals
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 喂养 (GHC '饭' 3; Kroll 2015 '飯' 1a)

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• 找饭碗(找飯碗) to look for a job
• 吃干饭(吃乾飯) to be incompetent; useless; good-for-nothing
• 吃饭皇帝大(吃飯皇帝大) eating comes first, then comes everything else
• 大锅饭(大鍋飯) a big pot of rice ; egalitarianism
• 酒饭(酒飯) food and drink
• 饭食(飯食) food ; a meal with rice
• 茶饭不思(茶飯不思) no thought for tea or rice; melancholic and suffering; to have no appetite
• 看菜吃饭，量体裁衣(看菜吃飯，量體裁衣) eat depending on the dish, cut cloth according to the body; to fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure; to act according to actual circumstances
• 吃牢饭(吃牢飯) to do prison time
• 三茶六饭(三茶六飯) to offer three kinds of tea and six different dishes; to be extremely considerate towards guests
• 炖饭(燉飯) risotto
• 粗茶淡饭(粗茶淡飯) plain tea and simple food
• 米饭(米飯) cooked rice
• 小饭桌(小飯桌) dining room for young schoolchildren unable to go home for lunch
• 饭岛柳莺(飯島柳鶯) Ijima's leaf warbler (Phylloscopus ijimae)
• 饭店(飯店) restaurant; hotel
• 金饭碗(金飯碗) secure and lucrative job
• 长期饭票(長期飯票) guarantee of financial support for the rest of one's life
• 电饭煲(電飯煲) rice cooker
• 吃饭(吃飯) to have a meal; to eat; to make a living
• 饭厅(飯廳) dining room; dining hall; mess hall
• 用饭(用飯) to eat; to have a meal
• 吃大锅饭(吃大鍋飯) to eat from the common pot; to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance
• 讨饭(討飯) to ask for food; to beg
• 饭票(飯票) (lit. and fig.) meal ticket
• 饭托(飯托) person hired to lure customers to high-priced restaurants
• 唱饭(唱飯) to call spirits to eat
• 努力加餐饭(努力加餐飯) try with all my might to eat and thrive
• 八宝饭(八寶飯) eight treasures dish
• 饭锅(飯鍋) rice pot
• 饭后服用(飯後服用) post cibum (pharm.); to take after a meal
• 吃软饭(吃軟飯) to live off a woman
• 饭桶(飯桶) rice pail
• 小饭馆(小飯館) tearoom; canteen; cafeteria
• 新疆手抓饭(新疆手抓飯) Xinjiang lamb rice
• 手抓饭(手抓飯) pilaf (rice dish popular in many parts of the world, including Xinjiang); pilau
• 领盒饭(領盒飯) (of an actor with a bit part) to receive a boxed meal when one's job is done (phrase used e.g. by movie viewers when a character dies)
• 打饭(打飯) to get food at a canteen
• 尘羹涂饭(塵羹塗飯) dirty broth and dusty rice
• 干饭(乾飯) cooked and dried rice
• 饭替(飯替) body double (in eating scenes)
• 炒冷饭(炒冷飯) to stir-fry leftover rice; to rehash the same story; to serve up the same old product
• 出饭(出飯) to swell on steaming (of hard rice grain)
• 好饭不怕晚(好飯不怕晚) the meal is remembered long after the wait is forgotten
• 抟饭(摶飯) to roll rice balls
• 便饭(便飯) an ordinary meal; simple home cooking
• 斋饭(齋飯) food given to Buddhist monks as alms
• 喷饭(噴飯) to burst out laughing
• 拌饭(拌飯) bibimbap
• 分灶吃饭(分竈吃飯) meals prepared at separate stoves, slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC

Also contained in

长城饭店

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 第二十二回 Chapter 22 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 14
• 第二回 Chapter 75 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 11
• 第六十七回 Chapter 67 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 11
• 第二回 Chapter 55 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 10
• 第二回 Chapter 62 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 10
• 第五十七回 Chapter 57 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 10
• 第四十七回 Chapter 47 Journey to the West 西遊記 — count: 9
• 第二回 Chapter 24 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 9
• 《食部》 Shì Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 9
• 第六十二回 Chapter 62 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 9

Collocations

• 三饭 (三飯) 三飯繚適蔡 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 18. 《微子》 Wei Zi — count: 18
• 饭牛 (飯牛) 秦國之飯牛者也 — Guanzi 管子, 小問第五十一 Chapter 51: Minor Questions — count: 12
• 一饭 (一飯) 復損一飯則脫然愈 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 10
• 先饭 (先飯) 先飯 — The Analects of Confucius 論語, 10. 《鄉黨》 Xiang Dang — count: 6
• 饭牛车 (飯牛車) 使甯戚毋忘飯牛車下也 — Guanzi 管子, 小稱第三十二 Chapter 32: Minor Appraisals — count: 6
• 戚饭 (戚飯) 寧戚飯牛 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷十一 善說 Chapter 11: Virtuous Speech — count: 4
• 强饭 (強飯) 取庸而強飯之 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十　繆稱訓 Chapter 10: Solemn Precepts — count: 3
• 饭含 (飯含) 下至飯含之物 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十二 游俠傳 Volume 92: Youxias — count: 3
• 饭稻 (飯稻) 先黍稷而飯稻粱 — Xunzi 荀子, 禮論篇第十九 Chapter 19: Discussion on Ceremony — count: 3
• 放饭 (放飯) 毋放飯 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮上》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 1 — count: 3