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| | (cooked) rice | HSK 1 |
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| | evening meal / dinner / supper / CL: 份, 頓|顿, 次, 餐 | HSK 1 |
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| | to prepare a meal / to cook | HSK 2 |
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| | electric rice cooker | HSK 5 |
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| | cooked rice / CL: 碗 / meal / CL: 頓|顿 / (loanword) fan / devotee | HSK 1 |
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| | reunion dinner on Lunar New Year's Eve (Chinese New Year tradition) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | meal in a partitioned box | HSK 5 |
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| | an ordinary meal / simple home cooking | HSK 7-9 |
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| | rice bowl / fig. livelihood / job / way of making a living | HSK 7-9 |
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| | rice in gravy, typically with meat and vegetables | |
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| | the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom) | |
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| | to lead an idle life; to be a loafer | |
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| | to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling) | |
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| | to lose one's job | |
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| | simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary | |
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| | to eat one's rice with an accompanying dish (to make the rice more palatable) / (of a dish) to go well with rice | |
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| | to get food at a canteen | |
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| | plain cooked rice / rice with nothing to go with it | |
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| | set meal | |
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| | to cook | |
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| | leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc) | |
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| | lunch | |
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| | cafeteria meal specially prepared for a group of visitors / set meal | |
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| | Eight Treasures Rice, Chinese rice pudding dessert usually made with eight types of candied fruits, nuts, seeds etc, popular during the Lunar New Year | |
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| | meal cooked in a large pot / communal meal / (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit | |
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| | dining room for young schoolchildren unable to go home for lunch | |
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| | the meal is remembered long after the wait is forgotten / the good things in life are worth waiting for | |
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| | to serve a meal | |
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| | (coll.) to burst out laughing | |
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| | egg fried rice (made by stir-frying cold cooked rice with eggs and vegetables) | |
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| | to eat / to have a meal | |
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| | Yangzhou fried rice, featuring scrambled egg, diced vegetables and multiple proteins – typically shrimp and barbecued pork | |
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| | farewell dinner party | |
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| | to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload | |
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| | risotto | |
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| | porridge; gruel; congee | |
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| | plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge) | |
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| | (coll.) to have a meal | |
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| | (lit. and fig.) meal ticket | |
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| | 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] | |
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| | Xinjiang-style pilaf, made with lamb | |
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| | rice cooker | |
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| | to live off a woman | |
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| | to look for a job | |
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| | to fill a bowl with rice | |
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| | bibimbap (Korean cuisine) | |
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| | to soak cooked rice in soup or water / cooked rice reheated in boiling water | |
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| | gimbap, aka kimbap (Korean dish made by rolling up steamed rice and other ingredients in a sheet of nori) | |
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| | to stir-fry leftover rice / fig. to rehash the same story / to serve up the same old product | |
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| | (coll.) to mooch a meal | |
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| | grand hotel; large, upscale hotel | |
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| | to work for a living | |
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| | rice tub (from which cooked rice or other food is served) / (fig.) fathead / a good-for-nothing | |
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| | food | |
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| | fried rice / (Tw) (slang) to have sex | |
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| | grain of cooked rice | |
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| | lit. to eat depending on the dish (idiom) / fig. to act according to actual circumstances | |
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| | lit. to offer three kinds of tea and six different dishes / to be extremely considerate towards guests (idiom) | |
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| | "meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC | |
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| | to push food into one's mouth using chopsticks while holding one's bowl up to one's mouth | |
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| | to provide alms and rice (idiom) | |
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| | (fig.) guarantee of financial support for the rest of one's life | |
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| | walk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life (proverb) | |
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| | rice paddle | |
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| | fan community / fandom | |
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| | dining hall / canteen / cafeteria | |
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| | (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) | |
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| | unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships / fig. poor-tasting meal | |
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| | rice with meat and vegetables | |
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| | wine sack, food bag (idiom); useless person, only fit for guzzling and boozing | |
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| | (coll.) gesture by an idol aimed at delighting fans (e.g. winking or throwing signed items); to interact with fans in such a manner (loanword from Japanese "fansābisu" – literally, "fan service") | |
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| | pet food bowl / dog bowl | |
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| | rice paddle | |
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| | meal card | |
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| | lit. to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom) / fig. to live in abject poverty | |
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| | secure and lucrative job | |
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| | (coll.) to serve time in prison; (Tw) (sarcastic) to live off the prison system (getting free meals) | |
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| | plain tea and simple food / (fig.) bread and water | |
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| | dining table | |
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| | to beg (for food or money) | |
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| | (coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing | |
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| | rice with meat and vegetables | |
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| | food | |
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| | leftovers from a meal / fig. remnants handed down from others | |
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| | no heart for tea or rice (idiom); melancholic and suffering / to have no appetite | |
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| | pork-leg rice – either a Guangdong (Chaozhou-Shantou) specialty of braised pork leg over rice or the Thai-Chinese dish "khao kha mu" | |
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| | egg fried rice | |
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| | have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals (proverb) | |
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| | person hired to lure customers to a restaurant | |
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| | cooked white rice | |
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| | post cibum (pharm.) / to take (medicine) after a meal | |
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| | lunchbox / mess tin | |
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| | to get or supply meals for a monthly rate; to board; to provide board | |
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| | fan who only likes one particular member of a pop idol band | |
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| | mealtime (lunchtime, dinnertime etc) | |
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