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

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)
• 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”)

Others:

• → Manchu: ᠵᡝᠮᡦᡳᠨ (jempin)

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)

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

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. 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

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