飯 fàn

cooked rice; food; meal

DEFINITIONS

  • cooked rice
  • food
  • meal
  • cooked rice
  • CL:碗[wan3]
  • meal
  • CL:頓|顿[dun4]
  • (loanword) fan
  • devotee

WORDS

三茶六飯 sān chá liù fàn lit. to offer three kinds of tea and six different dishes; to be extremely considerate towards guests (idiom)
丟飯碗 diū fàn wǎn to lose one's job
中飯 zhōng fàn lunch
乾飯 gān fàn cooked and dried rice
人是鐵飯是鋼 rén shì tiě fàn shì gāng one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom); an empty sack cannot stand upright
份兒飯 fèn r fàn set meal
便飯 biàn fàn an ordinary meal; simple home cooking
做飯 zuò fàn to prepare a meal; to cook
出飯 chū fàn to swell on steaming (of hard rice grain)
分竈吃飯 fēn zào chī fàn "meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC
剩飯 shèng fàn leftover food
包飯 bāo fàn to get or supply meals for a monthly rate; to board; to cater
午飯 wǔ fàn lunch; CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4],餐[can1]
吃乾飯 chī gān fàn (coll.) to be incompetent; useless; good-for-nothing
吃大鍋飯 chī dà guō fàn lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom); fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance
吃牢飯 chī láo fàn to do prison time (Tw)
吃白飯 chī bái fàn to eat plain rice; (fig.) to eat and not pay for it; to sponge off others; to freeload
吃軟飯 chī ruǎn fàn to live off a woman
吃閒飯 chī xián fàn to live as a parasite; doing nothing to earn one's keep
吃青春飯 chī qīng chūn fàn to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling)
吃飯 chī fàn to have a meal; to eat; to make a living
吃飯皇帝大 chī fàn huáng dì dà eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)
吃飽了飯撐的 chī bǎo le fàn chēng de having nothing better to do; see 吃飽撐著|吃饱撑着
唯飯 wéi fàn fan who only likes one particular member of a pop idol band
噴飯 pēn fàn (coll.) to burst out laughing
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