飯

飯 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+4, 13 strokes in Chinese, 12 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人戈竹水 (OIHE), four-corner 8174₇, composition ⿰飠反(GHTJV) or ⿰𩙿反(K))

• KangXi: page 1417, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44064
• Dae Jaweon: page 1941, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4444, character 5
• Unihan data for U+98EF
• Unihan data for U+FA2A

Historical forms of the character 飯
Western Zhou	Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *bonʔ, *bons) : semantic 食 (“food”) + phonetic 反 (OC *panʔ, *pʰan).

Compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *puuŋ (“cooked rice”), whence Mon ပုၚ် (pɜŋ, “cooked rice”) (Ferlus, 1988).

Pronunciation 1 is the exopassive derivation of pronunciation 2, meaning "what is eaten" (Schuessler, 2007).

飯

1. any cooked grain (rice, millet, etc.)

   小米飯／小米饭  ―  xiǎomǐ fàn  ―  cooked millet

2. (particularly) cooked rice (Classifier: 碗 m c h mn)

   糯米飯／糯米饭 [Cantonese]  ―  no⁶ mai⁵ faan⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  (cooked) sticky rice

   你要吃飯還是吃麵？ [MSC, trad.]
   你要吃饭还是吃面？ [MSC, simp.]

   Nǐ yào chī fàn háishì chī miàn? [Pinyin]

   Do you want to eat rice or noodles?

3. meal (Classifier: 頓／顿 m mn; 餐 m c)

   早飯／早饭  ―  zǎofàn  ―  breakfast

4. (dialectal) noodles

飯

1. (obsolete) to eat

   • 舜之飯糗茹草也，若將終身焉。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     舜之饭糗茹草也，若将终身焉。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Mencius, c. 4^th century BCE

     Shùn zhī fàn qiǔ rú cǎo yě, ruò jiāng zhōngshēn yān. [Pinyin]

     Shun's manner of eating his parched grain and herbs was as if he were to be doing so all his life.

2. (obsolete) to give food to; to let someone eat; to feed

   • 有一母見信飢，飯信。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     有一母见信饥，饭信。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

     Yǒu yī mǔ jiàn Xìn jī, fàn Xìn. [Pinyin]

     A woman saw that Han Xin was hungry, and thus gave him food to eat.

Borrowed from English fan. Doublet of 粉絲／粉丝 (fěnsī).

飯

1. (neologism, slang) fans

• “飯”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #9249”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

(grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 飯)

1. cooked grains (rice, etc.)
2. meal

• Go-on: ぼん (bon, 飯)
• Kan-on: はん (han, 飯)
• Kun: いい (ii, 飯)^{←いひ (ifi, 飯, historical)}; くらう (kurau, 飯らう)^{←くらふ (kurafu, 飯らふ, historical)}; くらわす (kurawasu, 飯らわす)^{←くらはす (kurafasu, 飯らはす, historical)}; まま (mama, 飯); まんま (manma, 飯); めし (meshi, 飯, Jōyō)
• Nanori: いい (ii, 飯)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [hã̠ɴ]

飯(はん) • (han) 

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⟨ipi₁⟩ → */ipʲi/ → /ifi/ → /iwi/ → /iː/

From Old Japanese, also used as 借音 (shakuon) kana for ⟨pi₁⟩.

飯(いい) • (ii) ^{←いひ (ifi)?}

1. (archaic) cooked grains, especially cooked rice

• See Japanese terms spelled with 飯 read as いい

飯(いい) • (Ii) ^{←いひ (ifi)?}

1. a surname

The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 召す (mesu, “to call”).[2]

• (Tokyo) めし​ [mèshíꜜ] (Odaka – [2])[2][3][4]
• IPA^(key): [me̞ɕi]

飯(めし) • (meshi) 

1. cooked grains, especially cooked rice
2. (informal) a meal

   飯(めし)を食(く)う

   meshi o kuu

   eat a meal

This is an informal way to refer to food, and 食う (kuu) is a correspondingly informal way to say "eat".

• See Japanese terms spelled with 飯 read as めし

飯(めし) • (Meshi) 

1. a surname

Clipping of 旨旨 (umauma, “food”, baby talk).

• (Tokyo) ま​ま [máꜜmà] (Atamadaka – [1])[2]
• IPA^(key): [ma̠ma̠]

飯(まま) • (mama) 

1. (Tsugaru) cooked rice
2. (childish) Alternative form of 飯 (manma)

• 飯借り (mamakari)
• 飯事 (mamagoto)
• 飯子菜 (mamakona)
• 飯焚き (mamataki)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Compare Korean 맘마 (mamma).

• (Tokyo) ま​んま [máꜜǹmà] (Atamadaka – [1])
• IPA^(key): [mã̠mːa̠]

飯(まんま) or 飯(まま) • (manma or mama) 

1. (childish) cooked rice

• 赤飯 (aka manma), 赤の飯 (aka no manma)
• 御飯 (o-manma)
• 猫飯 (neko manma)

飯 (eumhun 밥 반 (bap ban))

1. Hanja form^? of 반 (“meal, rice”).

• 飯饌 (반찬, banchan)
• 白飯 (백반, baekban)

飯: Hán Nôm readings: phạn[1][2], phằn

1. rice