飯

Stroke order

飯 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+4, 13 strokes in Chinese, 12 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人戈竹水 (OIHE), four-corner 8174₇, composition ⿰飠反(GHTJV) or ⿰𩙿反(K))

• 𪾗

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1417, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44064
• Dae Jaweon: page 1941, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4444, character 5
• Unihan data for U+98EF

• Unihan data for U+FA2A

 

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 飯 (Cantonese)
• 飯 (Gan)

Historical forms of the character 飯
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *bonʔ, *bons) : semantic 食 (“food”) + phonetic 反 (OC *panʔ, *pʰan).

Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *puuŋ (“cooked rice”), whence Mon ပုၚ် (pɜŋ, “cooked rice”) (Ferlus, 1988).

Pronunciation 1 is the exopassive derivation of pronunciation 2, meaning "what is eaten" (Schuessler, 2007).

飯

1. any cooked grain (rice, millet, etc.)

   小米飯／小米饭  ―  xiǎomǐ fàn  ―  cooked millet

2. (particularly) cooked rice (Classifier: 碗 m c h mn)

   糯米飯／糯米饭 [Cantonese]  ―  no⁶ mai⁵ faan⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  (cooked) sticky rice

   你要吃飯還是吃麵？ [MSC, trad.]
   你要吃饭还是吃面？ [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ yào chī fàn háishì chī miàn? [Pinyin]

   Do you want to eat rice or noodles?

3. meal (Classifier: 頓／顿 m mn; 餐 m c)

   早飯／早饭  ―  zǎofàn  ―  breakfast

4. (dialectal) noodles
5. (Mainland China Hokkien) egg clusters shaped like rice balls (of some animals)

飯

1. (obsolete) to eat

   • 舜之飯糗茹草也，若將終身焉。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     舜之饭糗茹草也，若将终身焉。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Shùn zhī fàn qiǔ rú cǎo yě, ruò jiāng zhōngshēn yān. [Pinyin]

     Shun's manner of eating his parched grain and herbs was as if he were to be doing so all his life.

2. (obsolete) to give food to; to let someone eat; to feed

   • 有一母見信飢，飯信。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     有一母见信饥，饭信。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Yǒu yī mǔ jiàn Xìn jī, fàn Xìn. [Pinyin]

     A woman saw that Han Xin was hungry, and thus gave him food to eat.

Borrowed from English fan. Doublet of 粉絲／粉丝 (fěnsī).

飯

1. (neologism, slang) fans

• “飯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[2], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #9249”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2024.

Shinjitai	飯
Kyūjitai [1]	飯 飯 or 飯+︀?
	飯󠄀 飯+󠄀? (Adobe-Japan1)
	飯󠄄 飯+󠄄? (Hanyo-Denshi) (Moji_Joho)
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(Fourth grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 飯)

1. cooked grains (rice, etc.)
2. meal

• Go-on: ぼん (bon, 飯)
• Kan-on: はん (han, 飯)
• Kun: いい (ī, 飯)^{←いひ (ifi, 飯, historical)}、くらう (kurau, 飯らう)^{←くらふ (kurafu, 飯らふ, historical)}、くらわす (kurawasu, 飯らわす)^{←くらはす (kurafasu, 飯らはす, historical)}、まま (mama, 飯)、まんま (manma, 飯)、めし (meshi, 飯, Jōyō)
• Nanori: いい (ī, 飯)