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  *飯* | 飯* | *飯
cooked rice / CL: / meal / CL: 頓|顿 / (loanword) fan / devotee
HSK 1
to have a meal / to eat / to make a living
HSK 1
evening meal / dinner / supper / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
breakfast / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
(cooked) rice
HSK 1
lunch / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
to prepare a meal / to cook
HSK 2
meal in a partitioned box
HSK 5
New Year's Eve family dinner
HSK 7-9
an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
HSK 7-9
plain cooked rice / rice with nothing to go with it
porridge; gruel; congee
risotto
lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom) / fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance
fried sticky rice
leftovers from a meal / fig. remnants handed down from others
to cook
leftover food
to get or supply meals for a monthly rate; to board; to provide board
egg fried rice (made by stir-frying cold cooked rice with eggs and vegetables)
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
rice in gravy, typically with meat and vegetables
to soak cooked rice in soup or water / cooked rice reheated in boiling water
to live off a woman
to beg (for food or money)
to eat / to have a meal
rice with meat and vegetables
to push food into one's mouth using chopsticks while holding one's bowl up to one's mouth
to get food at a canteen
to eat one's rice with an accompanying dish (to make the rice more palatable) / (of a dish) to go well with rice
plain tea and simple food / (fig.) bread and water
lunch
to fill a bowl with rice
meal cooked in a large pot / communal meal / (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
to stir-fry leftover rice / fig. to rehash the same story / to serve up the same old product
rice with meat and vegetables
(coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing
cafeteria meal specially prepared for a group of visitors / set meal
to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload
to ask for food / to beg
Eight Treasures Rice, Chinese rice pudding dessert usually made with eight types of candied fruits, nuts, seeds etc, popular during the Lunar New Year
to put some food aside for sb / to invite sb to stay for a meal / invitation to dinner
(coll.) (of rice) to rise well (with cooking)
lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed / It's too late to change anything now. / also written 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭
to serve a meal
pilaf (rice dish popular in many parts of the world, including Xinjiang)
to lead an idle life; to be a loafer
to work for a living
an unappealing and unsatisfying meal
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
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]
(coll.) to mooch a meal
(coll.) to burst out laughing
the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
food and drink
lit. to offer three kinds of tea and six different dishes / to be extremely considerate towards guests (idiom)
food given to Buddhist monks as alms
to roll rice balls / rice ball
spoilt tea, leftover food (idiom); remains after a meal / crumbs from the feast
set meal
fried rice / (Tw) (slang) to have sex
rice au gratin
unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships / fig. poor-tasting meal
bibimbap (Korean cuisine)
omurice, Japanese dish consisting of an omelet wrapped around fried rice and often topped with ketchup
gimbap, aka kimbap (Korean dish made by rolling up steamed rice and other ingredients in a sheet of nori)
pilaf (rice dish popular in many parts of the world, including Xinjiang) / pilau
egg fried rice
brunch
abbr. for 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭, lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed / It's too late to change anything now.
(coll.) to have a meal
Xinjiang-style pilaf, made with lamb
"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC
to do prison time (Tw)
to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling)
fan who only likes one particular member of a pop idol band
farewell dinner party
to provide alms and rice (idiom)
lit. to eat depending on the dish (idiom) / fig. to act according to actual circumstances
to serve (food)
(coll.) (of an actor with a bit part) to receive a boxed meal when one's job is done (phrase used e.g. by movie viewers when a character dies)
to fill one's belly before the battle (idiom)


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