Today’s first #kanji is #飯 – its radical is しょくへん（飠） which is from 食 (to eat), and its pronunciation indicator is 反（reverse）. “Reversing eating” sounds strange but 反 is made of がんだれ（厂） (a cave people can live in) and 又 (again), so in the end it may not be that strange…

Meaning: to eat, food

飯盒（ハンゴウ）: a mess kit (portable cooker)
ご飯（ごハン）: cooked rice, a meal, food
夕飯（ユウハン/ユウめし）: an evening meal, dinner
赤飯（セキハン）: sekihan – white glutinous rice steamed with red adzuki beans for eating on celebratory occasions, auspicious white rice with red beans

飯（めし/まま/まんま）: cooked (boiled) rice, a meal, living
飯屋（めしや）: an eating house, a small eatery
朝飯前（あさめしまえ）: before breakfast, easy, a piece of old tackie

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飯田（いいだ）: Iida – a common surname

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