饭
fàn
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 飯
Cooked rice, and by extension any meal. 吃饭 is the everyday way to say 'to eat, to have a meal', whatever is on the table. Plain rice is 米饭; breakfast, lunch and dinner are 早饭, 午饭 and 晚饭. A bowl of rice is 一碗饭.
Cơm, gạo đã nấu chín; cũng chỉ bữa ăn. 吃饭 là “ăn cơm”, tức ăn một bữa nói chung, y như trong tiếng Việt. Cơm trắng là 米饭; bữa sáng, bữa trưa, bữa tối là 早饭, 午饭, 晚饭. Một bát cơm là 一碗饭.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “饭” mean?
Cooked rice, and by extension any meal. 吃饭 is the everyday way to say 'to eat, to have a meal', whatever is on the table. Plain rice is 米饭; breakfast, lunch and dinner are 早饭, 午饭 and 晚饭. A bowl of rice is 一碗饭.
Is “饭” formal or informal?
饭 is generally neutral.