HSK 3.0 Level 1 · Food

饭 fàn “cooked rice” in Chinese

Traditional 飯

What 饭 means

  1. cooked rice
  2. meal
  3. (loanword) fan
  4. devotee

Measure word 碗 wǎn or 顿 dùn · 一碗饭 yì wǎn fàn

How to say 饭

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale饭fàn4th tone, falling

饭 in a sentence

  1. 饭好了，快来吃吧！

    Fàn hǎo le, kuài lái chī ba!

    The food’s ready. Come and eat!

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 你做饭做得很好吃。

    Nǐ zuòfàn zuò de hěn hǎochī.

    Your cooking is delicious.

    Sentence #1728948 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我现在正在吃米饭。

    Wǒ xiànzài zhèngzài chī mǐfàn.

    I’m eating rice now.

    Sentence #2777839 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 饭 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 饭 (fàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
饭fàncooked rice
  • 饣eat form of 食 · shíMeaning part
  • 反reverse · fǎnSound part

饣 hints at the meaning (eat); 反 (fǎn) hints at the sound. Compare it with fàn.

How to write 饭

饭 7 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

饭 (fàn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 饭 (fàn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 饭

Words with 饭

饭店fàndiàn · restaurant米饭mǐfàn · cooked rice晚饭wǎnfàn · evening meal午饭wǔfàn · lunch早饭zǎofàn · breakfast做饭zuòfàn · to prepare a meal饭馆fànguǎn · restaurant

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水果shuǐguǒ · fruit苹果píngguǒ · apple水shuǐ · water茶chá · tea面条儿miàntiáor · noodles晚饭wǎnfàn · evening meal午饭wǔfàn · lunch早饭zǎofàn · breakfast

FAQs

饭 (fàn) means “cooked rice” or “meal”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word.
Say it fàn: fàn with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 饭 is written 飯. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 碗 (wǎn) or 顿 (dùn). For example, one cooked rice is 一碗饭 (yì wǎn fàn).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type fan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 饭 from the suggestions. Typing fan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
饭 is an HSK 3.0 Level 1 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 1 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.