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

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
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² piã⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɛn³³ piã⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² piã⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ piã⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ piã⁴¹/

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 煎餅

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

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (煎餅):

• → Japanese: 煎(せん)餅(べい) (senbei)

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

senbei rice cracker

Pronunciation

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

Alternative spelling
煎餠 (kyūjitai)

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、交昌雑錄、唐歳時節物、人日則有煎餅、唐六典膳部職、有節日食料、注正月七日三月三日煎餅、亦謂此也、小說諾皐記、孟不疑條有煎餅僧恵恪條同、又見朝野羣載大治二年天承二年解交按鑿俗云煎餅盤見金器中即造是物之器

2. 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)

   • 1603–1604, Nippo Jisho, 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.

   • 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

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.