Cantonese words starting with F

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leftovers (food); a dining companion

the cover of a rice cooker

飯館兒饭馆儿

erhua form of 飯館|饭馆[fan4 guan3]

(noun) meal of lunch or dinner

faan6 hau6 baak3 bou6 zau2 ，wut6 dou3 gau2 sap6 gau2

飯後百步走，活到九十九饭后百步走，活到九十九

walk a hundred steps after each meal and you will live a long life (proverb)

faan6 hau6 fuk6 jung6

飯後服用饭后服用

post cibum (pharm.)

faan6 hau6 jat1 zi1 jin1 ，coi3 gwo3 wut6 san4 sin1

飯後一支煙，賽過活神仙饭后一支烟，赛过活神仙

have a smoke after each meal and you will surpass the immortals (proverb)

faan6 hiu2 hyun1

范曉萱范晓萱

Mavis Fan, name of a Taiwanese singer

faan6 hon3 deoi3 jam1

梵漢對音梵汉对音

Sanskrit-Chinese transliteration

faan6 jau2 jyu4 cou2

飯糗茹草饭糗茹草

lit. to live on dry provisions and wild herbs (idiom)

criminal intent

historian from Song of the Southern Dynasties 南朝宋, author of History of Eastern Han 後漢書|后汉书

Sanskrit (language)

Fan County or Fanxian, a county in Puyang City 濮陽市|濮阳市[Pu2 yang2 Shi4], Henan

to break the rules; a foul

(coll.) to get sleepy

Fan Li (536-488 BC), politician of Yue state, businessman and economist

example; model case

rice dishes (on menu)

appetite; eating capacity

(noun) writing sample or sample essay

valve (biological)

to feel embarrassed

to commit a crime or offense

(dialect) to talk nonsense

Buddhist temple

faan6 si1 taan2

Dianne Feinstein (1933-), US Senator from California

Versace (fashion designer)

to break the law

faan6 siu2 jan2

to be lacking in luck

to do something stupid; to stare blankly

to offend one's superiors

faan6 soeng6 zok3 lyun6

犯上作亂犯上作乱

to rebel against the emperor (idiom)

faan6 soi1 gong1

瓣鰓綱瓣鳃纲

Lamellibranchia

Brahmana, ancient Hindu texts

body double (in eating scenes)

dining room; mess hall

Nirvana (in Buddhist scripture)

person hired to lure customers to a restaurant