干饭 (gānfàn) · plain cooked rice

Measure Word

一碗干饭 wǎn

Meanings

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

Characters

Examples

HSK 5

锅里还剩了一碗干饭。

Guō lǐ hái shèng le yì wǎn gānfàn.

There is still a bowl of cooked rice left in the pot.

HSK 6

早上喝粥，中午吃干饭。

Zǎoshang hē zhōu, zhōngwǔ chī gānfàn.

Congee in the morning, plain rice at noon.

HSK 7-9

他不爱喝稀饭，只吃干饭。

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 粥. It is heard most in the southwest, where a meal is described by which of the two you are having.