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餅

餅

See also: 饼 and 餠

Translingual

Han character

餅 (radical 184 食+8, 17 strokes, cangjie input 人戈廿廿 (OITT), four-corner 88741, composition ⿰飠并)

References

  • KangXi: page 1419, character 14
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44133
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1943, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4453, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9905

Chinese

trad. 餅
simp. 饼
alt. forms 餠

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (并) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
鵧 *bi
駢 *beːn
胼 *beːn
骿 *beːn
軿 *beːn, *beːŋ
賆 *beːn
跰 *preŋs, *beːn
恲 *pʰreŋ
鮩 *breŋʔ, *beːŋʔ, *biɡ
絣 *preːŋ
拼 *preːŋ
迸 *preːŋs
姘 *pʰreːŋ, *pʰeːŋ
皏 *pʰreːŋʔ
併 *breːŋʔ, *breːŋs, *peŋʔ, *peŋs, *beːŋʔ
并 *peŋ, *peŋs
栟 *peŋ
屏 *peŋ, *peŋʔ, *beːŋ
箳 *peŋ, *beːŋ
餅 *peŋʔ
鉼 *peŋʔ
摒 *peŋs
庰 *beŋs
偋 *beŋs
艵 *pʰeːŋ
頩 *pʰeːŋ, *pʰeːŋʔ
竮 *pʰeːŋ, *beːŋ
瓶 *beːŋ
缾 *beːŋ
蛢 *beːŋ
荓 *beːŋ
郱 *beːŋ
洴 *beːŋ
蓱 *beːŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *peŋʔ) : semantic 飠 ‎(“food”) + phonetic 幷 (as in 餠); phonetic component now simplified to 并.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 餅
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 清 (121)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 必郢切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /piᴇŋX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /piɛŋX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /piæŋX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /piajŋX/
Li
Rong		 /piɛŋX/
Wang
Li		 /pĭɛŋX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pi̯ɛŋX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bǐng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 餅
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bǐng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pjiengX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*peŋʔ/
English cake

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 餅
Reading # 1/1
No. 934
Phonetic
component		 并
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 餅
Old
Chinese		 /*peŋʔ/

Definitions

餅

  1. pastry; biscuit; cookie
    月餅 / 月饼  ―  yuèbǐng  ―  mooncake
    曲奇餅 / 曲奇饼  ―  qūqíbǐng  ―  cookie
  2. any round and flat pancake-like object
    肉餅 / 肉饼  ―  ròubǐng  ―  meat patty
  3. (Cantonese) Classifier for video cassettes.
  4. (Min Dong) Classifier for pastry or flat objects.

Compounds

Descendants

  • Khmer: បាញ់ ‎(banh, “cake, pastry”)
  • Lao: ແປ້ງ ‎(pǣng, “flour; starch; powder”)
  • Thai: แป้ง ‎(bpɛ̂ɛng, “powder; flour; starch”)
  • Vietnamese: bánh ‎(“pastry; cake; bread”)

Japanese

Kanji

餅

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
餅
もち
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Noun

餅 ‎(hiragana もち, romaji mochi)

  1. mochi; rice cake

Korean

Hanja

餅 • ‎(byeong)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 병 (revised: byeong)
  • Name (hangeul): 떡 (revised: tteok)
  1. cake

Vietnamese

Character

Readings

Etymology 1

Noun

餅 ‎(bánh)

  1. pastry, cake, bread, dumpling, noodle, wafer, or pudding

References

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