饭

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

contrary / in reverse / inside out or upside down / to reverse / to return / to oppose / opposite / against / anti- / to rebel / to use analogy / instead / abbr. for 反切[fan3 qie4] phonetic system

"to eat" or "food" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 184)

lunch / CL:份[fen4],頓|顿[dun4],次[ci4],餐[can1]

to prepare a meal / to cook

lunch

leftover food

an ordinary meal / simple home cooking

to get or supply meals for a monthly rate / to board / to cater

to lead an idle life; to be a loafer

to live as a parasite / doing nothing to earn one's keep

"meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC

set meal

one can't function properly on an empty stomach (idiom) / an empty sack cannot stand upright

to lose one's job

lit. to offer three kinds of tea and six different dishes / to be extremely considerate towards guests (idiom)

(coll.) to be incompetent / useless / good-for-nothing

lit. to eat from the common pot (idiom) / fig. to be rewarded the same, regardless of performance

to do prison time (Tw)

to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload

to live off a woman

blueberry

to swell on steaming (of hard rice grain)