做饭
zuò fàn
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 做飯
To cook, to make a meal at home. It is a verb with its own object, 做 'to make' plus 饭 'a meal', so nothing more is needed: 我会做饭 'I can cook'. To cook one particular dish, use 做 with that dish: 做饺子 'make dumplings'.
Nấu cơm, nấu ăn: làm một bữa ăn ở nhà. Đây là động từ 做 (làm) + tân ngữ 饭 (bữa ăn), nên không cần thêm gì: 我会做饭 (tôi biết nấu ăn). Nấu một món cụ thể thì dùng 做 + tên món: 做饺子 (làm sủi cảo). Giống “nấu cơm”, nó chỉ chung việc nấu nướng chứ không riêng cơm.
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (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 “做饭” mean?
To cook, to make a meal at home. It is a verb with its own object, 做 'to make' plus 饭 'a meal', so nothing more is needed: 我会做饭 'I can cook'. To cook one particular dish, use 做 with that dish: 做饺子 'make dumplings'. Literally: make a meal
Is “做饭” formal or informal?
做饭 is generally neutral.