fàn

cooked rice

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
饣 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

is a component form of .

反 sound component

  Sound component

fǎn

  

reverse

Evolution

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

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
饭 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
饭 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

fàn

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

Most common words with 饭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

吃饭

to eat

meal

晚饭

dinner

午饭

lunch

饭店

hotel

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 58.9941% of movies

638th most common character in movies

935th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+996D


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