飯faan6碗wun2

English

1. rice bowl
2. rice bowl
3. fig. livelihood
4. job; means of living
5. job
6. way of making a living

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 裝飯嘅碗，多數用瓷或膠造嘅（量詞：隻）
2. 職業、生計（量詞：個）

Examples

• 鐵飯碗

  a secure job; a job from which one is unlikely to be dismissed; especially, a government job; literally, iron rice bowl

• 打爛飯碗

  to break a rice bowl; figuratively, to cause someone to lose his/her job

• 攞啲飯碗出廳先。

  Take the rice bowls to the living room. ----

• 我哋唔可以俾呢啲人搶我哋飯碗。

  We cannot allow these people to steal our jobs.

  Tatoeba · nickyeow CC BY

• 即使我拿不到高工资，我也不肯放弃这个饭碗。

  Even if I don't get a high salary, I'm not willing to quit this way of making a living.

  Tatoeba · sysko CC BY