煎餅

See also: 煎饼

Chinese

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

Etymology

Doublet of 仙貝 / 仙贝 (xiānbèi).

Pronunciation


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

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (煎餅):
  • Japanese: (せん)(べい) (senbei, rice cracker) (see there for further descendants)

Others:

Japanese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Kanji in this term
せん
Grade: S
へい > べい
Grade: S
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
煎餠 (kyūjitai)

Noun

(せん)(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

Descendants

References

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Okinawan

Kanji in this term
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

(しん)(びー) (shinbī

  1. rice cracker