干饭

乾飯
gānfàn / gànfàn
noun #44,263

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 plain cooked rice
  2. 2 steamed rice (as opposed to rice porridge)

Examples

HSK 5
Guō lǐ hái shèng le yì wǎn gānfàn.
There is still a bowl of cooked rice left in the pot.
HSK 6
Zǎoshang hē zhōu, zhōngwǔ chī gānfàn.
Congee in the morning, plain rice at noon.
HSK 7-9
Tā bú ài hē xīfàn, zhǐ chī gānfàn.
He does not like congee, he only eats plain rice.

Tips

mistakes
First tone. The fourth-tone 干饭 is recent internet slang for tucking into a meal and is a different word with a different traditional form, 幹飯 against 乾飯 for the rice.
usage
This is the older, everyday word, and it exists mainly as the opposite of 稀饭 or . It is heard most in the southwest, where a meal is described by which of the two you are having.

Stroke Order

gān
fàn