餅

See also: 饼 and 餠

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 飠 + 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)

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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Chinese

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trad.		餅
simp.		饼

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǐng (bing³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): beng², bing²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): piáng
• Min Nan (POJ): piáⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bǐng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄧㄥˇ
    • Wade-Giles: ping³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: biing
    • IPA ^(key): /piŋ²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: beng², bing²
    • Yale: béng, bíng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: beng², bing²
    • IPA ^(key): /pɛːŋ³⁵/, /pɪŋ³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: piáng
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /pi̯aŋ³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: piáⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: piánn
    • IPA (Taipei): /piã⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /piã⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (餅, reconstructed)
Character (餅), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 清 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 必郢切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/piᴇŋX/	/pi̯ɛŋX/	/piɛŋX/	/piɛŋX/	/piajŋX/	/pĭɛŋX/	/piæŋX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (餅, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
餅								bǐng								‹ pjiengX ›								/*peŋʔ/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
餅					934					并					耕					0					餅					/*peŋʔ/

Noun

餅

1. cake, biscuit, pastry, cookie

Compounds

• 潤餅

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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 (byeong)
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 떡 (revised: tteok)

1. cake

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Vietnamese

Character

Readings

• Hán Việt: bính
• Nôm: bính, bánh

Etymology 1

Noun

餅 (bánh)

1. pastry, cake, bread, dumpling, noodle, wafer, or pudding
   • 13th century: Trần Nhân Tông, "Đệ cửu hội", Cư trần lạc đạo phú

     茶(trà)趙(Triệu)老(lão)餅(bánh)韶(Thiều)陽(Dương)/排(bầy)禪(thiền)子(tử)矣(hãy)群(còn)肁(đói)渴(khát)

     Old man Trieu’s tea, Thieu Duong cakes, / the novices still hungry and thirsty.

References

• Jean-Louis Taberd (1838), Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum, p. A4.
• Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)