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飯

飯

See also: 饭

Translingual

Han character

飯 (radical 184 食+4, 13 strokes, cangjie input 人戈竹水 (OIHE), four-corner 81747, composition ⿰食反)

References

  • KangXi: page 1417, character 27
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44064
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1941, character 21
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4444, character 5
  • Unihan data for U+98EF

Chinese

trad. 飯
simp. 饭

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (反) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
扳 *praːn, *pʰraːn
板 *praːnʔ
版 *praːnʔ
瓪 *praːnʔ, *paːnʔ
昄 *praːnʔ, *braːnʔ, *paːnʔ
鈑 *praːnʔ
蝂 *praːnʔ
眅 *pʰraːn, *pʰraːnʔ
阪 *braːnʔ, *panʔ
魬 *braːnʔ
粄 *paːnʔ
反 *panʔ, *pʰan
返 *panʔ
坂 *panʔ
畈 *pans
販 *pans
汳 *pʰans
飯 *bonʔ, *bons

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *bonʔ, *bons) : semantic 食 ‎(“food”) + phonetic 反 ‎(OC *panʔ, *pʰan).

Etymology

Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *puuŋ ‎(“cooked rice”), whence Mon ပုၚ် ‎(pɜŋ, “cooked rice”).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 飯 飯
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 元 (66) 元 (66)
Tone (調) Rising (X) Departing (H)
Openness (開合) Closed Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 扶晚切 符万切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bʉɐnX/ /bʉɐnH/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bʷiɐnX/ /bʷiɐnH/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biuɐnX/ /biuɐnH/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buanX/ /buanH/
Li
Rong		 /biuɐnX/ /biuɐnH/
Wang
Li		 /bĭwɐnX/ /bĭwɐnH/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯wɐnX/ /bʱi̯wɐnH/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fàn fàn
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 飯 飯
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fàn fàn
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjonX › ‹ bjonH ›
Old
Chinese		 /*bo[n]ʔ/ /*bo[n]ʔ-s/
English eat cooked rice or millet

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 飯 飯
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 2976 2977
Phonetic
component		 反 反
Rime
group		 元 元
Rime
subdivision		 3 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 飯 飯
Old
Chinese		 /*bonʔ/ /*bons/

Definitions

飯

  1. cooked rice
  2. food
  3. meal   (Classifier: 頓／顿 m; 餐 c)
  4. † to eat
  5. † to give food to; to let someone eat; to feed

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

飯

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Kanji in this term
飯
めし
Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Noun

飯 ‎(hiragana めし, romaji meshi)

  1. cooked rice
  2. (informal) meal
    飯 (めし)を食 (く)う
    meshi o kuu
    eat a meal

Usage notes

This is an informal way to refer to food, and 食 (く)う ‎(kuu) is a correspondingly informal way to say "eat."

Korean

Hanja

飯 • ‎(ban) (hangeul 반, McCune-Reischauer pan, Yale pan)

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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

飯 (phạn)

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