夹生饭

Traditional form:

夾生飯

Pinyin (reading):

jiāshēngfàn

Definitions:

• half-cooked rice
• (fig.) half-finished job that is difficult to complete because it was not done properly in the first instance
• Taiwan pr. (jiàshengfàn)

Characters:

• 夹 - to support; to be wedged between
• 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
• 饭 - meal, food; cooked rice

Traditional characters:

• 夾 - to support; to be wedged between
• 生 - life, lifetime; birth; growth
• 飯 - meal, food; cooked rice