八寶飯

简 八宝饭 · 繁 八寶飯
Cantonese · source Jyutpingbaat3 bou2 faan6

Meanings

  1. traditional Shanghainese snack, consist of eight kinds of ingredients, they are steamed glutinous rice, red beans, red dates and etc.
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Same syllable, six tones

baatbaat1—baat2—八baat3eightbaat4—baat5—baat6—

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

  • 八寶飯 bā bǎo fàn CC-CEDICT · MandarinEight Treasures Rice, Chinese rice pudding dessert usually made with eight types of candied fruits, nuts, seeds etc, popular during the Lunar New Year

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CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: ba1 bao3 fan4. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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noun

  1. eight-treasure rice pudding (a traditional Chinese New Year dessert)

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Mandarin comparison: CC-CEDICT 2026-10-13, CC BY-SA 4.0. Source reading differences and six-tone sets: computed by zimai from Unihan 17.0.0 (Unicode License V3).

Exact source record & identity八寶飯 八宝饭 [ba1 bao3 fan4] {baat3 bou2 faan6} /traditional Shanghainese snack, consist of eight kinds of ingredients, they are steamed glutinous rice, red beans, red dates and etc./

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