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飯 = 食 + 反

飯 is a Japanese kanji written with 12 strokes, listed here under the keyword “meal”. It is built from 食 (eat) and 反 (anti-). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1583.

Keyword
meal
RTK frame
1583
Strokes
12
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ハン
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
めし
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
еда
Same glyph as a traditional Chinese hanzi
飯 cooked rice

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 食 eat
  2. 反 anti-

How to find 飯 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “eat” + “anti-”. 飯 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

Open 飯 in the interactive kanji search to expand every part down to its smallest pieces, add your own names and mnemonic stories, or search for other characters by their parts.