the rice is cooked; what's done is done; it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
trad. 生米煮成熟飯
Also written 生米煮成熟飯【shēng mǐ zhǔ chéng shú fàn】
Characters in this word
6生
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to grow; to give birth; to produce; to be born, to arise; to occur, to light (a fire), to live; to be alive, life, raw; uncooked; unprocessed, unfamiliar; strange, (bound form) student; person engaged in a field, (bound form) male role in traditional opera, (bound form) life; lifetime, (bound form) means of livelihood, (bound form) very; intensely (as in 生疼[sheng1 teng2]), (bound form) in a forced manner (as in 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4])
- Pinyin
- shēng
- Strokes
- 5
- Frequency
- 1196 of 2500
米
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surname Mi
- Pinyin
- Mǐ
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 1106 of 2500
煮
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variant of 煮[zhu3]
- Pinyin
- zhǔ
- Traditional
- 煑
- Strokes
- 12
- Frequency
- 2929 of 2500
成
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surname Cheng, short name for Chengdu 成都[Cheng2 du1]
- Pinyin
- Chéng
- Strokes
- 6
- Frequency
- 677 of 2500
熟
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ripe; mature, thoroughly cooked; done, familiar; acquainted, experienced; skilled, (of sleep etc) deep; profound, also pr. [shou2]
- Pinyin
- shú
- Strokes
- 15
- Frequency
- 4098 of 2500
饭
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cooked rice, CL:碗[wan3], meal, CL:頓|顿[dun4], (loanword) fan, devotee
- Pinyin
- fàn
- Traditional
- 飯
- Strokes
- 7
- Frequency
- 3361 of 2500