ご飯

• 読み: ごはん
• ローマ字: gohan
• 漢字の分解: 飯 (han/meshi) — cooked rice, meal
• 発音: /ɡo.haɴ/

意味

Cooked rice; meal. The most fundamental food word in Japanese.

Refers both to cooked rice specifically and to meals in general. When someone says ご飯を食べた, it can mean either 'I ate rice' or 'I had a meal.' Rice is so central to Japanese cuisine that the word for rice became synonymous with eating itself.

例文

1. 毎日ご飯を食べます。
2. 今日の晩ご飯は何ですか。
3. ご飯がまだ炊けていません。

使い方ガイド

場面: daily life, meals, cooking

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From 飯 (meshi/han, 'cooked rice') with the honorific prefix ご. The kanji 飯 combines 食 (food) and 反 (return), suggesting food that sustains and replenishes.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal