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  *飯* | 飯* | *飯
cooked rice / CL: / meal / CL: 頓|顿 / (loanword) fan / devotee
HSK 1
breakfast / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
evening meal / dinner / supper / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
lunch / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
to have a meal / to eat / to make a living
HSK 1
(cooked) rice
HSK 1
to prepare a meal / to cook
HSK 2
restaurant / CL:
HSK 2
electric rice cooker
HSK 5
meal in a partitioned box
HSK 5
rice bowl / fig. livelihood / job / way of making a living
HSK 7-9
New Year's Eve family dinner
HSK 7-9
an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
HSK 7-9
fried rice / (slang) (Tw) to have sex
plain cooked rice / rice with nothing to go with it
rice ball (steamed rice formed into a ball and stuffed with various fillings) / onigiri (Japanese-style rice ball)
restaurant / hotel / CL: , 個|个
lunchbox / mess tin
porridge; gruel; congee
food
rice cooker
rice with meat and vegetables
to get or supply meals for a monthly rate; to board; to provide board
to beg (for food or money)
food
rice in gravy, typically with meat and vegetables
to eat / to have a meal
to cook
to push food into one's mouth using chopsticks while holding one's bowl up to one's mouth
amount of food one eats / portion size
rice paddle
meal cooked in a large pot / communal meal / (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
no thought for tea or rice (idiom); melancholic and suffering / to have no appetite
(coll.) to burst out laughing
risotto
leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc)
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom) / fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance
to serve a meal
secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl)
to soak cooked rice in soup or water / cooked rice reheated in boiling water
leftovers from a meal / fig. remnants handed down from others
leftover food
dining table
lunch
dining room / dining hall / mess hall
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
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]
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 eat one's rice with an accompanying dish (to make the rice more palatable) / (of a dish) to go well with rice
to put some food aside for sb / to invite sb to stay for a meal / invitation to dinner
dinner party / banquet
to live off a woman
to stir-fry leftover rice / fig. to rehash the same story / to serve up the same old product
plain tea and simple food / (fig.) bread and water
to have eaten and drunk to one's heart's content
to lead an idle life; to be a loafer
to fill a bowl with rice
secure and lucrative job
wine sack, food bag (idiom); useless person, only fit for guzzling and boozing
to ask for food / to beg
to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload
pilaf (rice dish popular in many parts of the world, including Xinjiang)
rice with meat and vegetables
food given to Buddhist monks as alms
(fig.) guarantee of financial support for the rest of one's life
(coll.) (of rice) to rise well (with cooking)
big restaurant
an unappealing and unsatisfying meal
lit. to offer three kinds of tea and six different dishes / to be extremely considerate towards guests (idiom)
(lit. and fig.) meal ticket
rice tub (from which cooked rice or other food is served) / (fig.) fathead / a good-for-nothing
to get food at a canteen
(coll.) to mooch a meal
the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
to look for a job
to lose one's job
(coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing
lit. to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom) / fig. to live in abject poverty
food and drink
to work for a living
to roll rice balls
post cibum (pharm.) / to take (medicine) after a meal
rice dishes (on menu)
set meal
spoilt tea, leftover food (idiom); remains after a meal / crumbs from the feast
cafeteria meal specially prepared for a group of visitors / set meal
rice au gratin
no heart for tea or rice (idiom); melancholic and suffering / to have no appetite
having nothing better to do / see 吃飽撐著|吃饱撑着
unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships / fig. poor-tasting meal
dining hall / canteen / cafeteria
food coma / postprandial somnolence
one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom) / an empty sack cannot stand upright
"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)
eating comes first, then comes everything else (idiom) (Tw)
fan who only likes one particular member of a pop idol band

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