饭
fàn HSK1

cooked rice

饭 飯 fàn
meal noun
a meal; daily food

他用现金支付这顿饭。

tā yòng xiàn​jīn zhī​fù zhè dùn fàn.

He paid for the meal with cash.

饭前不要吸烟。

fàn qián bù​yào xī yān.

Do not smoke before meals.

cooked rice noun
cooked grain; specifically cooked rice

妈妈，别等我来吃中午饭。

mā​ma, bié děng wǒ lái chī zhōng​wǔ fàn.

Mom, don't wait for me to have lunch.

to eat
(literary) to eat a meal; to dine
fan
(loanword) fan; enthusiast; devotee
to feed
(literary) to feed people; to fodder animals

Cross-References

Classifier

Has variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
935th most common 181.3 per million
Movie subtitles
638th most common 214.3 per million appears in 59% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
54.0 per million appears in 19% of films
Written text
86.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 1
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Traditional
飯
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+996D

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)