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飯

fàn

cooked rice

Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 反 represents the sound.

Components
飠 meaning component

飠  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

飠 is a component form of 食.

反 sound component

反  Sound component

fǎn

  

reverse

Evolution

飯 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
飯 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
飯 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
飯 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

饭 (飯) 

fàn

cooked rice; food; meal; CL:碗[wǎn]; CL:頓|顿[dùn]; (loanword) fan; devotee

Most common words with 飯
Freq.
Word
Meaning

吃饭

to eat

饭

meal

晚饭

dinner

午饭

lunch

饭店

hotel

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*bo[n]ʔ

bjonX

fàn

eat

*bo[n]ʔ-s

bjonH

fàn

cooked rice or millet


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 58.9941% of movies

638th most common character in movies

935th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Simplified

饭

Unicode

U+98EF

Shuowen

“飯，食也。从食，反聲。”


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