ご飯はん

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Common wordJLPTN5Freq.FrequencyTop 5,000

Meanings

Refers specifically to steamed white rice as a food item. Often used in compound expressions like ご飯を炊く (to cook rice).

General term for a meal, often used in polite or everyday contexts. Can refer to any meal of the day (朝ご飯, 昼ご飯, 晩ご飯).

ご飯はんを炊たくto cook rice
毎まい朝あさ、母ははがご飯はんを炊たいてくれる。
My mother cooks rice for me every morning.
ご飯はんをよそうto serve/dish out rice into a bowl
子こ供どものためにご飯はんをよそった。
I dished out a bowl of rice for the child.
ご飯はんが炊たけるfor rice to finish cooking
炊すい飯はん器きでご飯はんが炊たけた。
The rice finished cooking in the rice cooker.
ご飯はんにするto decide to have a meal; to go eat
そろそろご飯はんにしようか。
Shall we go have something to eat soon?
〈人ひと〉をご飯はんに誘さそうto invite someone out for a meal
同どう僚りょうをご飯はんに誘さそった。
I invited a coworker out for a meal.

飯めしN3sense 1
飯 is a blunt, casual (often masculine) word for cooked rice or a meal, while ご飯 is the neutral, polite everyday term.
食しょく事じN5sense 2
食事 is a more formal, abstract word for 'a meal' used in writing or polite speech, while ご飯 is the warm, everyday word people use at home.
ライスN1sense 1
ライス refers to rice served Western-style on a plate (as with curry or omelet rice), while ご飯 is the general word for rice served in a bowl Japanese-style.
米こめN4
米 refers to rice as raw or harvested grains, while ご飯 usually means rice that has been cooked (or a meal in general).

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米べい飯はん
ご飯 is the everyday, casual word for cooked rice, while 米飯 is a formal or written term used in menus, news, and official contexts.
舎しゃ利り
ご飯 is the ordinary word for cooked rice, whereas 舎利 is specialized vocabulary used mainly by sushi chefs.

おまんま
ご飯 is the standard, neutral word for cooked rice or a meal, while おまんま is a colloquial, nostalgic-sounding variant of the same word.
飯めしplainN3
飯 is the blunt, informal (often male) word for cooked rice or a meal, while ご飯 is the neutral, polite term anyone can use.

御おん飯いい
御飯 (おんいい) is a rare Shinto honorific term for rice offered to a deity, while ご飯 (ごはん) is the everyday word for cooked rice or a meal, despite sharing the same kanji.
稲いねN3
稲 refers to the rice plant itself, whereas ご飯 means cooked rice (or a meal), not the plant.

杯はいN4
Used when counting bowls/servings of rice; for cooked rice as a mass noun, there is no single conventional general counter.
口くちN5
Counts mouthfuls (ご飯を一口).
盛もり
Counts heaped servings (一盛り).

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Polite prefix 御 (ご) + 飯 (はん, 'cooked rice'). The reading はん is a Sino-Japanese reading of 飯.