飯 — meal, boiled rice

めし飯 meal

Grade 4 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 12 strokes food

U+98EF Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1046 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1583 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

meal
boiled rice

word

めし meshi Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

飯(めし) meshi cooked rice 昼(ひる) 飯(めし) hirumeshi lunch

はん han On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

ご飯(はん) gohan rice 夕(ゆう) 飯(はん) yuuhan dinner 御(ご) 飯(はん) gohan cooked rice

いい ii Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

飯(いい) 田(だ) iida Iida (surname/place name)

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

飠 food (left form)

はん反 anti

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#184 食 eat