饭

饭 · fàn

cooked rice; food, meal

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Meanings & readings

Meaning & readings

cooked rice; food, meal

Mandarin
fàn
Cantonese
faan6

Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.

Form & structure

Writing & identity

Unicode
U+996D
Radical
饣 · 184
Strokes
7 · Unihan
Residual
4

Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.

Stroke order

7 strokes
饭
Strokes
7
Convention
PRC · Make Me a Hanzi

7 strokes in writing order. Play to watch them, or Step through one at a time.

Modern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.

Graphical structure

⿰饣反(G)
How to read these symbols

⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.

BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.

Words & connections

Words using 饭

Character connections

No reverse component match in this collection.

Sentence context · 2 matches

我们先吃饭,然后再走。

First we'll eat, and then we'll go.
Source, contributors & licenses

Mandarin: Tatoeba #400336 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · Text editors: GlossaMatik · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #400331 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM

Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.

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History & distinctions

Related forms

Unihan traditional/simplified variant properties. Conversion may depend on context.

Sources & reference

Evidence & next depth

Source editions & exact scope ↗
Retained Unihan properties
kMandarin
fàn
kCantonese
faan6
kDefinition
cooked rice; food, meal
kTotalStrokes
7
kRSUnicode
184'.4
kTraditionalVariant
U+98EF
kTGH
2013:823

Readings across dictionaries

Small numbers locate dictionary entries; 粵 introduces Cantonese. Includes rare or historical readings. Source notation ↗

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Sentences in context

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Structure & connections

0.10
148dictionary records using 饭0forms using this shape0attributed sound links
⿰ Left / right

Shape description
饣 beside 反 · the shape used in China
Source notation ^⿰饣反$(G)
BabelStone · 2025-06-27. Encoded shape and region tags; graphical analysis does not establish historical function.

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Retained descriptions & scope

^⿰饣反$(G)

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