fàn

cooked rice; food, meal

HSK 1 #935

DEFINITIONS

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

STROKES

WORDS

chū fàn to swell on steaming (of hard rice grain)
分灶吃 fēn zào chī fàn "meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC
吃干 chī gān fàn (coll.) to be incompetent; useless; good-for-nothing
吃大锅 chī dà guō fàn lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom); fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance
吃牢 chī láo fàn to do prison time (Tw)
吃白 chī bái fàn to eat plain rice; (fig.) to eat and not pay for it; to sponge off others; to freeload
吃软 chī ruǎn fàn to live off a woman
吃青春 chī qīng chūn fàn to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling)
皇帝大 chī fàn huáng dì dà eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)
吃饱了撑的 chī bǎo le fàn chēng de having nothing better to do; see 吃飽撐著|吃饱撑着
wéi fàn fan who only likes one particular member of a pop idol band
大锅 dà guō fàn meal cooked in a large pot; communal meal; (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
夹生 jiā shēng fàn half-cooked rice; (fig.) half-finished job that is difficult to complete because it was not done properly in the first instance; Taiwan pr. [jia4 sheng5 fan4]
不怕晚 hǎo fàn bù pà wǎn the meal is remembered long after the wait is forgotten; the good things in life are worth waiting for
桌 xiǎo fàn zhuō dining room for young schoolchildren unable to go home for lunch
馆 xiǎo fàn guǎn tearoom; canteen; cafeteria
年夜 nián yè fàn New Year's Eve family dinner
忆苦 yì kǔ fàn unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships; fig. poor-tasting meal
手抓 shǒu zhuā fàn pilaf (rice dish popular in many parts of the world, including Xinjiang); pilau
dǎ fàn to get food at a canteen
碗 zhǎo fàn wǎn to look for a job
zhuā fàn pilaf (rice dish popular in many parts of the world, including Xinjiang); pilau
bàn fàn bibimbap (Korean cuisine)
tuán fàn to roll rice balls
散伙 sàn huǒ fàn farewell dinner party