"I eat rice."
Translation:我吃饭。
November 17, 2017
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vencatom
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Guys I really like how is this course made, but could you please correct everywhere one fundamental mistake? Rice is in Chinese 米饭 (mifan) !!! Thanks
asterhine
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白饭 means white rice, as opposed to other types of rice like brown rice and glutinous rice. We usually use 米 to mean uncooked rice, 饭 to mean cooked rice, and 米饭 really specifies that it's rice. While some others have mentioned that 饭 is used to mean food in general (and this is true), it is also perfectly fine to use just 饭 to mean cooked rice. One doesn't have to use 米饭 to mean that they're eating rice, unless they really want to specify it.