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Cooked rice in Chinese

cooked rice · HSK 1

米饭 mǐ fàn

  1. 米 mǐ rice
  2. 饭 fàn meal

Counted with 碗: 一碗米饭 yì wǎn mǐfàn

我中午吃了一碗米饭。 I had a bowl of rice for lunch.

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How do you say cooked rice in Chinese?

Cooked rice in Chinese is 米饭 (mǐ fàn). You can also say 饭 (fàn).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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