No. 281 in Japanese
ご飯
Cooked rice; meal.
In a sentence
朝ご飯を食べました。
I ate breakfast.
In this sentence, 'ご飯' (gohan) refers to breakfast, showing its usage to mean a specific meal of the day, combined with '朝' (asa) meaning morning.
晩ご飯はまだですか？
Is dinner ready yet?
Here, 'ご飯' is used to mean dinner, when prefixed with '晩' (ban), illustrating its flexibility to represent different meals depending on the context or prefix.
お祝いのご飯を作ります。
I will prepare celebratory rice.
In this context, 'ご飯' refers more specifically to 'rice,' emphasizing its literal meaning as cooked rice.
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