Kanji1 / 12
飯 kanji
meal, boiled rice
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
ハン
Kun readings
めし
Variant forms
飰Words with 飯
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —噴飯bursting out laughing
- —飯台(Japanese-style) dining table
- —飯米rice
- —喫飯taking a meal; eating
- —白飯cooked white rice
- —水飯rice washed in cold water; dried rice soaked in water to soften
- —炊飯rice cooking; boiling rice
- —午飯lunch
- —黄飯yellow rice meal (coloured with essence of gardenia fruit)
- —鶏飯dish of seasoned chicken with rice, pickles, etc. (from Kagoshima and Okinawa)
- —強飯event in which someone is forced to eat a large quantity of rice (e.g. the April 2 Shugendō ceremony at Nikko's Rinnōji temple)
- —夜飯dinner
- —仏飯rice offering to Buddha
- —茶飯事matter of no importance; commonly occurring thing; commonplace event; bread and butter item
- —ご飯時mealtime
- —夕ご飯evening meal; dinner; supper
- —天津飯crab omelet on rice
- —飯切りflat-bottomed wooden bowl for preparing sushi rice
- —御飯粒grain of boiled rice
- —麦ご飯boiled barley and rice