ご飯 (ごはん, gohan) Japanese meaning: cooked rice

ご飯 (ごはん, gohan) Japanese meaning: cooked rice | Kotomora

Kanji

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).

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