餅

See also 饼, and 餠

Translingual

simplified	饼
traditional	餅

Etymology

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

Han character

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

1. biscuit, pancake
2. rice cake (Japanese)

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

餅 (simplified 饼, Yale bing2)

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Japanese

Wikipedia

Noun

餅 (hiragana もち, romaji mochi)

1. rice cake

Kanji

餅 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: へい (hei), ひょう (hyō)
• Kun: もち (mochi)

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Korean

Hanja

餅
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 병 (revised: byoung)

• Name (hangeul): 뗙 (revised: ouk)

1. cake

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Mandarin

Hanzi

餅 (simplified 饼, pinyin bǐng (bing3), zī (zi1), Wade-Giles ping³, tzu¹)

Compounds

• 潤餅

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Min Nan

Noun

餅 (traditional, POJ piáⁿ, simplified 饼)

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Vietnamese

Han character

餅 (bính, bánh)