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Food and drink

Rice, noodles, fruit, tea and the other words a first meal needs.

饭(fàn) is both cooked rice and a meal, and 菜(cài) both a dish and vegetables, because a meal is rice with dishes beside it. Two verbs share the table: 吃(chī) for what is chewed and 喝(hē) for what is drunk — and soup and rice porridge are drunk. “Delicious” has two words for the same reason: 好吃(hǎochī) for food, 好喝(hǎohē) for drink.

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Verb (1)

吃饭(chīfàn)to eat; to have a mealVerb1

你(nǐ)吃饭(chīfàn)了(le)吗(ma)？Have you eaten?

Also a friendly greeting around mealtimes, not a real question.

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