Chinese Character 飯 Meanings and components.

Form

飯

Meaning

飯 meaning[3] in English

Cooked Rice.

Cl:碗[Wan3].

Meal.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character 飯 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are to eat (食) , and contrary (反)

Its radical[1] is: 食 (shi2) which means: To Eat, Food, Animal Feed, Eclipse, .食shi2to eat

In cangjie it is written with OIHE

How to write 飯

To write飯fan4cooked rice you should write a combination of 食shi2to eat , 反fan3contrary arranged in a 吅 shape:

食 + 反 = 飯

飯 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 飯 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 飯, looks as follow:

飯
Pinyin:fan4 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: Cooked Rice . Cl:碗[Wan3] . Meal . Cl:頓|顿[Dun4] . (Loanword) Fan . Devotee
食
Pinyin:shi2
Meaning[3]: To Eat . Food . Animal Feed . Eclipse
人
Pinyin:ren2
Meaning[3]: Man . Person . People . Cl:個|个[Ge4],位[Wei4]
良
Pinyin:liang2 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Good . Very . Very Much
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]
艮
Pinyin:gen3
Meaning[3]: Blunt . Tough . Chewy
反
Pinyin:fan3 Shape:吕
Meaning[3]: Contrary . In Reverse . Inside Out Or Upside Down . To Reverse . To Return . To Oppose . Opposite . Against . Anti- . To Rebel . To Use Analogy . Instead . Abbr. For 反切[Fan3 Qie4] Phonetic System
⺁
Pinyin:⺁
又
Pinyin:you4
Meaning[3]: (Once) Again . Also . Both... And... . And Yet . (Used For Emphasis) Anyway

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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