饭 — cooked rice; meal; fan
cooked rice; meal; fan; devotee
- Pinyin
- fàn
- Strokes
- 7
- HSK level
- HSK 1
- Handwriting
- recognition only
How to write 饭: 7 strokes
Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.
Words with 饭 in the HSK syllabus: 13
Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.
- 饭fàncooked rice; meal; fan; devoteeHSK 1
- 饭店fàndiànrestaurant; hotelHSK 1
- 米饭mǐfànriceHSK 1
- 晚饭wǎnfànevening meal; dinner; supperHSK 1
- 午饭wǔfànlunchHSK 1
- 早饭zǎofànbreakfastHSK 1
- 做饭zuò fànto prepare a meal; to cookHSK 1
- 饭馆fànguǎnrestaurantHSK 2
- 盒饭héfànmeal in a partitioned boxHSK 5
- 年夜饭niányèfànreunion dinner on Lunar New Year's EveHSK 5
- 电饭锅diànfànguōelectric rice cookerHSK 6
- 便饭biànfànan ordinary meal; simple home cookingHSK 7–9
- 饭碗fànwǎnrice bowl; fig. livelihood; jobHSK 7–9
Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.