饼

Translingual

Etymology

Simplified from 餅 (飠 → 饣); compare earlier 餠.

In current form, Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 饣 (“food”) + phonetic 并.

Han character

饼 (radical 184 饣+6, 9 strokes, cangjie input 弓女廿廿 (NVTT))

1. rice-cake, rice-cakes, biscuit, biscuits, pancake, pancakes

References

• KangXi: not present, would follow page 1427, character 31
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4453, character 2
• Unihan data for U+997C

Cantonese

Hanzi

饼 (traditional 餅, Yale bing2)

Mandarin

Hanzi

饼 (traditional 餅, pinyin bǐng (bing3), Wade-Giles ping³)

Derived terms

• cookie饼