米饭 mǐfàn cooked rice
How to remember 米饭: 米 rice + 饭 meal = cooked rice.
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How it is used
- Cooked white rice, the served dish - 一碗米饭 (yì wǎn mǐfàn) a bowl of rice.
- 米 alone is uncooked raw rice/grain; 饭 alone is 'cooked food/a meal' broadly (吃饭 = eat a meal).
- So 米饭 specifically names the steamed rice on your plate.
Example sentences
- 我在吃米饭。 Wǒ zài chī mǐfàn.I'm eating rice.
- 我们喜欢吃米饭。 Wǒmen xǐhuan chī mǐfàn.We like eating rice.
- 他们吃很多米饭。 Tāmen chī hěnduō mǐfàn.They eat a lot of rice.
- 我现在正在吃米饭。 Wǒ xiànzài zhèngzài chī mǐfàn.I'm eating rice now.