飯 meal

Also: cooked rice

On'yomi
ハン
Kun'yomi
めし
Strokes
12
JLPT
N4
Taught in
Primary school, year 4

Stroke order

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飯 is written in 12 strokes. Each panel adds the next one; the dot marks where the brush starts.

Remember it

飠 food beside 反 flipping over: you turn the rice in the pot until it's a proper cooked meal.

A common word

  • 御飯 ごはん meal / rice

Example sentences

  • あさごはんをたべましたか。

    Did you eat breakfast?

  • ごはんをもういっぱいください。

    One more bowl of rice, please.

Kanji that share a part

飠 is its radical.

反 is a component.

  • 返 return
  • 坂 slope N2
  • 版 printing Block N2
  • 板 plank N2
  • 販 sell N2
  • 仮 temporary N1