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The character for 'meal' or 'cooked rice' is built from a semantic component related to food and a phonetic element that indicates pronunciation, with its traditional form 飯 featuring the radical 食 to signify food or the act of eating alongside 反 as a sound indicator, forming a phono-semantic compound where meaning and sound are integrated. Originally denoting prepared grains, particularly rice, its application widened over centuries to encompass any regular meal, reflecting its fundamental role in sustenance. The simplified variant 饭 maintains this structural logic by preserving the phonetic component while condensing the semantic radical into 饣, a streamlined representation of 食.
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妈妈在做饭。
我们吃晚饭吧。
这碗饭真好吃。
我们每天在家吃晚饭。
他刚吃完饭就去工作了。
我请你到饭馆吃午饭。
今天的早饭有面包和鸡蛋。
如果饭不够，我们可以再煮一点。