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to have a meal / to eat / to make a living
HSK 1
(cooked) rice
HSK 1
lunch / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
breakfast / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
evening meal / dinner / supper / CL: , 頓|顿, ,
HSK 1
to prepare a meal / to cook
HSK 2
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cooked rice / CL: / meal / CL: 頓|顿 / (loanword) fan / devotee
HSK 1
reunion dinner on Lunar New Year's Eve (Chinese New Year tradition)
HSK 7-9
meal in a partitioned box
HSK 5
an ordinary meal / simple home cooking
HSK 7-9
rice in gravy, typically with meat and vegetables
the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
to lead an idle life; to be a loafer
to make the most of one's youthfulness in one's choice of employment (e.g. modeling)
simple home-style meal / common occurrence / nothing out of the ordinary
to eat one's rice with an accompanying dish (to make the rice more palatable) / (of a dish) to go well with rice
to get food at a canteen
plain cooked rice / rice with nothing to go with it
set meal
to cook
lunch
cafeteria meal specially prepared for a group of visitors / set meal
Eight Treasures Rice, Chinese rice pudding dessert usually made with eight types of candied fruits, nuts, seeds etc, popular during the Lunar New Year
meal cooked in a large pot / communal meal / (fig.) system that rewards everyone equally regardless of merit
to serve a meal
(coll.) to burst out laughing
egg fried rice (made by stir-frying cold cooked rice with eggs and vegetables)
to eat / to have a meal
Yangzhou fried rice, featuring scrambled egg, diced vegetables and multiple proteins – typically shrimp and barbecued pork
farewell dinner party
to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload
risotto
porridge; gruel; congee
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
(coll.) to have a meal
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]
Xinjiang-style pilaf, made with lamb
to live off a woman
to fill a bowl with rice
bibimbap (Korean cuisine)
to soak cooked rice in soup or water / cooked rice reheated in boiling water
gimbap, aka kimbap (Korean dish made by rolling up steamed rice and other ingredients in a sheet of nori)
to stir-fry leftover rice / fig. to rehash the same story / to serve up the same old product
(coll.) to mooch a meal
to work for a living
fried rice / (Tw) (slang) to have sex
lit. to eat depending on the dish (idiom) / fig. to act according to actual circumstances
lit. to offer three kinds of tea and six different dishes / to be extremely considerate towards guests (idiom)
"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC
to push food into one's mouth using chopsticks while holding one's bowl up to one's mouth
to provide alms and rice (idiom)
(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)
unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships / fig. poor-tasting meal
rice with meat and vegetables
(coll.) to serve time in prison; (Tw) (sarcastic) to live off the prison system (getting free meals)
plain tea and simple food / (fig.) bread and water
to beg (for food or money)
(coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing
rice with meat and vegetables
leftovers from a meal / fig. remnants handed down from others
pork-leg rice – either a Guangdong (Chaozhou-Shantou) specialty of braised pork leg over rice or the Thai-Chinese dish "khao kha mu"
egg fried rice
cooked white rice
to get or supply meals for a monthly rate; to board; to provide board
fan who only likes one particular member of a pop idol band
leftover food
pilaf (rice dish popular in many parts of the world, including Xinjiang)
(coll.) (of rice) to rise well (with cooking)
omurice, Japanese dish consisting of an omelet wrapped around fried rice and often topped with ketchup
fried sticky rice
food given to Buddhist monks as alms
an unappealing and unsatisfying meal
abbr. for 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭, 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.
(coll.) homemade cat food / rice with bonito flakes (simple meal for human consumption) (calque of Japanese "neko manma")
to ask for food / to beg
to fill one's belly before the battle (idiom)
pilaf (rice dish popular in many parts of the world, including Xinjiang) / pilau
to roll rice balls / rice ball
spoilt tea, leftover food (idiom); remains after a meal / crumbs from the feast
food and drink
brunch
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 put some food aside for sb / to invite sb to stay for a meal / invitation to dinner
to serve (food)
rice au gratin
lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom) / fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance


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