HSK 1 · Food

米饭 mǐfàn “cooked rice” in Chinese

Traditional 米飯

What 米饭 means

  1. cooked rice

How to say 米饭

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale米mǐ3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale饭fàn4th tone, falling

米饭 in a sentence

  1. 在你们国家吃米饭吗？

    Zài nǐmen guójiā chī mǐfàn ma?

    Do you eat rice in your country?

    Sentence #504875 from Tatoeba

  2. 你们有没有米饭？

    Nǐmen yǒu méiyǒu mǐfàn?

    Do you have rice?

    Sentence #1302376 from Tatoeba

  3. 他们吃很多米饭。

    Tāmen chī hěn duō mǐfàn.

    They eat a lot of rice.

    Sentence #1788049 from Tatoeba

How 米饭 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 米 (mǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
米mǐuncooked rice
  • 丷eight form of 八 · bā
  • 木tree · mù

Memory aidGrains of rice scattered around a stalk.

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 米饭

米 6 strokes · 饭 7 strokes

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

Words related to 米饭

Words with 米

米mǐ · rice玉米yùmǐ · corn厘米límǐ · centimetre毫米háomǐ · millimetre

Words with 饭

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

More words: Food & Drink

吃chī · to eat喝hē · to drink菜cài · dish水果shuǐguǒ · fruit苹果píngguǒ · apple水shuǐ · water茶chá · tea盐yán · salt

FAQs

米饭 (mǐfàn) means “cooked rice”. It is an HSK 1 word, so it is one of the words learners meet early.
Say it mǐfàn: mǐ with a 3rd tone, then 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, 米饭 is written 米飯. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type mifan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 米饭 from the suggestions. Typing mifan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
米饭 is an HSK 1 word in the 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). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.