煎餅

See also: 煎饼

Chinese

		pan-fry	round flat cake; cookie; cake round flat cake; cookie; cake; pastry
trad. (煎餅)		煎	餅
simp. (煎饼)		煎	饼

Etymology

Doublet of 仙貝 / 仙贝 (xiānbèi).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jiānbǐng

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢ ㄅㄧㄥˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zin¹ beng²
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chian-piáⁿ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: jiānbǐng → jiānbing (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄢ ㄅㄧㄥˇ → ㄐㄧㄢ ˙ㄅㄧㄥ (toneless final syllable variant)
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jianbi̊ng
    • Wade–Giles: chien¹-ping⁵
    • Yale: jyān-bing
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jian.biing
    • Palladius: цзяньбин (czjanʹbin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ piŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ → /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ b̥iŋ²/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zin¹ beng²
    • Yale: jīn béng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzin¹ beng²
    • Guangdong Romanization: jin¹ béng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːn⁵⁵ pɛːŋ³⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chian-piáⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tsian-piánn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cienpviar
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² piã⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɛn³³ piã⁵⁵⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² piã⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ piã⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ piã⁴¹/

Noun

煎餅

1. jianbing (thin, fried egg Chinese pancake similar to a crepe); flatbread (e.g. roti canai); fried pancake (e.g. bánh xèo)

Derived terms

• 印度煎餅 / 印度煎饼 (yìndù jiānbǐng)
• 煎餅餜子 / 煎饼馃子 (jiānbǐng guǒzi)
• 菜煎餅 / 菜煎饼
• 越南煎餅 / 越南煎饼 (Yuènán jiānbǐng)

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (煎餅):

• → Japanese: 煎(せん)餅(べい) (senbei, “rice cracker”) (see there for further descendants)

Others:

• → Manchu: ᠵᡝᠮᡦᡳᠨ (jempin)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
煎	餅
せん Grade: S	へい > べい Grade: S
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
煎餠 (kyūjitai)

senbei rice cracker

Alternative forms

• (honorific) お煎餅(せんべい) (o-senbei)

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 煎餅 (MC tsjen pjiengX, “jianbing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sẽ̞mbe̞ː]
• (Tokyo) せんべー [séꜜǹbèè] (Atamadaka – [1])

Noun

煎(せん)餅(べい) • (senbei) 

1. a Chinese sweet made out of kneaded flour, hardened and fried with oil
   • 938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō, volume 4, pages 47-48:

     煎餅 楊氏漢語抄云、煎餅、此間云如字、以油熬小麥麵之名也

     Senbei The Yanagi Clan Chinese Excerpts call them senbei, here pronounced in the usual way, it's the name for wheat flour fried with oil.

2. senbei (a baked sweet made out of kneaded rice flour and seasoned with soy sauce, salt, or sugar; a rice cracker)
   • 1597: Ekirin Setsuyōshū (page 235)

     煎餅 (センベイ)

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1603, Vocabvlario da Lingoa de Iapam (Nippo Jisho) [Vocabulary of the Language of Japan] (in Portuguese), Nagasaki, page 750:

     Xenbei. センベイ (煎餅) 米を材料にして造った一種のパンケーキで、聖体パンに似たもの.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1775: Butsurui Shōko (page 135)

     煎餅 せんべい 出羽ノ秋田にてをへらまきと云

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• 辻占(つじうら)煎餅(せんべい) (tsujiura senbei, “fortune cookie”)

Descendants

• → Chinese: 仙貝／仙贝 (xiānbèi)

References

• Doi, Tadao (1603–1604), Hōyaku Nippo Jisho (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, published 1980, →ISBN.
• Minamoto, Shitagō with Kyōto Daigaku Bungakubu Kokugogaku Kokubungaku Kenkyūshitu (931–938), Shohon Shūsei Wamyō Ruijushō: Honbunhen (in Japanese), Kyōto: Rinsen, published 1968, →ISBN.
• Fukkoku Nihon Koten Zenshū: Setsuyōshū, Tōkyō: Gendai Shichō Shinsha, 2006 [1597], →ISBN
• Tōjō, Misao (1941) [1775], Butsurui Shōko (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN

• “煎餅”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

Okinawan

Kanji in this term
煎	餅
しん Grade: S	ひー > びー Grade: S
on'yomi

Alternative spelling
煎餠 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Cognate with Japanese 煎餅 (senbei).

Noun

煎(しん)餅(びー) (shinbī) 

1. rice cracker