饭

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cooked rice; CL:碗[wan3]; meal; CL:頓|顿[dun4]; (loanword) fan; devotee

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

饣 meaning “food” + 反 sound ( fǎn )

Components 饣反

meal · Heisig RSH #1155

食 food + 反 against

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
米饭	mǐ fàn	(cooked) rice
吃饭	chī fàn	to have a meal; to eat; to make a living
饭店	fàn diàn	restaurant; hotel; CL:家[jia1]
早饭	zǎo fàn	breakfast; CL:份[fen4],頓\|顿[dun4],次[ci4],餐[can1]
晚饭	wǎn fàn	evening meal; dinner; supper; CL:份[fen4],頓\|顿[dun4],次[ci4],餐[can1]
午饭	wǔ fàn	lunch; CL:份[fen4],頓\|顿[dun4],次[ci4],餐[can1]
白米饭	bái mǐ fàn	cooked white rice
中饭	zhōng fàn	lunch
白饭	bái fàn	plain cooked rice; rice with nothing to go with it
饭后服用	fàn hòu fú yòng	post cibum (pharm.); to take (medicine) after a meal
吃白饭	chī bái fàn	to eat plain rice; (fig.) to eat and not pay for it; to sponge off others; to freeload
下饭	xià fàn	to eat one's rice with an accompanying dish (to make the rice more palatable); (of a dish)…
出饭	chū fàn	(coll.) (of rice) to rise well (with cooking)
开饭	kāi fàn	to start eating; to serve a meal
打饭	dǎ fàn	to get food at a canteen
茶饭无心	chá fàn wú xīn	see 茶飯不思\|茶饭不思[cha2 fan4 bu4 si1]
饭点	fàn diǎn	mealtime (lunchtime, dinnertime etc)
饭后一支烟，赛过活神仙	fàn hòu yī zhī yān , sài guò huó shén xiān	have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals (proverb)
长期饭票	cháng qī fàn piào	(fig.) guarantee of financial support for the rest of one's life
用饭	yòng fàn	to eat; to have a meal

Characters sharing the sound component 反 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
反 sound part	fǎn	reverse, opposite; contrary, anti-
板	bǎn	board, plank; plate, slab; unnatural, stiff
版	bǎn	printing block, edition; register; volume, version
贩	fàn	merchant, peddler; to deal in, to trade
扳	bān	to drag, to pull; to twist
坂	bǎn	hillside, slope
阪	bǎn	hillside, slope
舨	bǎn	sampan, wooden boat
钣	bǎn	metal plate; sheet metal
畈	fàn	field; farm