饭馆

fàn guǎn · HSK 2

restaurant

饭馆 — restaurant

🍽️🏠 饭 (cooked rice/meal) + 馆 (establishment) = meal establishment

饭 means cooked rice or a meal; 馆 denotes a public building or establishment (also seen in 茶馆 teahouse, 图书馆 library). Together: a place where meals are served — a restaurant.

饭 — food radical 飠/饣 + 反 fǎn (phonetic)
A semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 饣 (simplified from 飠, 'eat/food') gives the meaning, while 反 on the right hints at the sound. Originally referring to cooked grain, it broadened to mean cooked rice and, by extension, a meal in general.

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