赤飯

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 赤飯 is read as せきはん and means celebratory red-bean rice made by cooking glutinous rice with azuki beans or a similar bean.
• Basic usage: Use 祝いに赤飯を炊く for cooking red-bean rice for a celebration and 小豆の色が鮮やかな赤飯 for rice with a vivid azuki color.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Difference between 赤飯 and 白飯
  • The former is reddish rice cooked with beans and often served for celebrations, whereas the latter is plain cooked white rice.