| 饭 | fàn | food; cuisine; cooked rice; meal; CL:碗,顿 |
| 吃饭 | chī fàn | to eat a meal |
| 饭店 | fàn diàn | restaurant; hotel; CL:家,个 |
| 晚饭 | wǎn fàn | evening meal; dinner; supper; CL:份,顿,次,餐 |
| 做饭 | zuò fàn | to prepare a meal; to cook |
| 早饭 | zǎo fàn | breakfast; CL:份,顿,次,餐 |
| 饭碗 | fàn wǎn | rice bowl; fig. livelihood; job; way of making a living |
| 饭馆 | fàn guǎn | restaurant; CL:家 |
| 午饭 | wǔ fàn | lunch; CL:份,顿,次,餐 |
| 饭菜 | fàn cài | food |
| 大锅饭 | dà guō fàn | lit. big rice pan; communal feeding; fig. egalitarianism (equal treatment for everyone in same institution) |
| 讨饭 | tǎo fàn | to ask for food; to beg |
| 要饭 | yào fàn | to beg (for food or money) |
| 饭厅 | fàn tīng | dining room; dining hall; mess hall |
| 开饭 | kāi fàn | to serve a meal |
| 米饭 | mǐ fàn | (cooked) rice |
| 中饭 | zhōng fàn | lunch |
| 稀饭 | xī fàn | porridge; gruel |
| 饭桌 | fàn zhuō | dining table |
| 铁饭碗 | tiě fàn wǎn | secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl) |
| 三茶六饭 | sān chá liù fàn | lit. to offer three kinds of tea and six different dishes; to be extremely considerate towards guests (idiom) |
| 丢饭碗 | diū fàn wǎn | to lose one's job |
| 干饭 | gān fàn | cooked and dried rice |
| 便饭 | biàn fàn | an ordinary meal; simple home cooking |
| 出饭 | chū fàn | to swell on steaming (of hard rice grain) |
| 剩饭 | shèng fàn | left-over food |
| 包饭 | bāo fàn | get or supply meals at a fixed rate; board |
| 吃牢饭 | chī láo fàn | to do prison time (Taiwan) |
| 吃软饭 | chī ruǎn fàn | to live off a woman |
| 吃闲饭 | chī xián fàn | to live as a parasite; doing nothing to earn one's keep |
| 吃饱了饭撑的 | chī bǎo le fàn chēng de | having nothing better to do; see 吃饱撑着 |
| 夹生饭 | jiā shēng fàn | half cooked rice |
| 好饭不怕晚 | hǎo fàn bù pà wǎn | The meal is remembered long after the wait is forgotten; The good things in life are worth waiting for |
| 小饭馆 | xiǎo fàn guǎn | tearoom; canteen; cafeteria |
| 年夜饭 | nián yè fàn | New Year's Eve family dinner |
| 忆苦饭 | yì kǔ fàn | unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships; fig. poor-tasting meal |
| 找饭碗 | zhǎo fàn wǎn | to look for a job |
| 抓饭 | zhuā fàn | pilau; pilaf; a type of food popular among Muslims |
| 拌饭 | bàn fàn | bibimbap |
| 抟饭 | tuán fàn | to roll rice balls |
| 施粥舍饭 | shī zhōu shě fàn | to provide alms and rice (idiom) |
| 残羹剩饭 | cán gēng shèng fàn | leftovers from a meal; fig. remnants handed down from others |
| 残茶剩饭 | cán chá shèng fàn | spoilt tea, leftover food (idiom); remains after a meal; crumbs from the feast |
| 泡饭 | pào fàn | to soak cooked rice in soup or water; cooked rice reheated in boiling water |
| 混饭 | hùn fàn | to work for a living |
| 炒冷饭 | chǎo lěng fàn | to stir-fry left-over rice; fig. to rehash the same story; to serve up the same old product |
| 炒饭 | chǎo fàn | fried rice |
| 乌饭果 | wū fàn guǒ | blueberry |
| 烩饭 | huì fàn | rice in gravy, typically with meat and vegetables |
| 生米做成熟饭 | shēng mǐ zuò chéng shú fàn | lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed; It's too late to change anything now.; also written 生米煮成熟饭 |
