昼御飯

ひるごはん · hirugohan · JLPT N5 · noun

lunch

昼御飯 — lunch

🍱☀️ 昼御飯 = noon (hiru) + honourable (go) + cooked rice/meal (han)

昼 hiru means daytime or noon. 御飯 gohan is cooked rice with the polite prefix 御, and by extension any meal. So the word reads literally as noon meal. Same pattern: 朝御飯 asagohan = breakfast, 晩御飯 bangohan = dinner.

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