餅

餅 (Kangxi radical 184, 食+6, 14 strokes in Chinese, 15 strokes in Japanese, cangjie input 人戈廿廿 (OITT), four-corner 8874₁, composition ⿰飠并(GHTV) or ⿰𩙿并(JK))

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1419, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 44133
• Dae Jaweon: page 1943, character 20
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4453, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9905

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *peŋʔ): semantic 飠 (“food”) + phonetic 并 (OC *peŋ, *peŋs); traditional glyph form during Ming and Qing dynasty used to advocate 幷 (as in 餠) based on the influence of Shuowen.

餅

1. flat wheaten food, such as flatbread, pancake, biscuit, and pie

   月餅／月饼  ―  yuèbǐng  ―  mooncake

   曲奇餅／曲奇饼  ―  qūqíbǐng  ―  cookie

2. (obsolete) noodles

   湯餅／汤饼  ―  tāngbǐng  ―  noodle soup

   涼餅／凉饼  ―  liángbǐng  ―  cold noodles

3. any flatbread-shaped object

   茶餅／茶饼  ―  chábǐng  ―  dried tea leaves pressed into the shape of a disc

   肉餅／肉饼  ―  ròubǐng  ―  meat patty

   麵餅／面饼  ―  miànbǐng  ―  disc (block) of instant noodles

4. (Cantonese) Western-style pastry (usually cake) (Classifier: 件 c)

   Synonym: 西餅 / 西饼 (sai¹ beng²)

5. (Cantonese, figuratively) pie (the whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts) (Classifier: 個／个 c)

   分餅仔／分饼仔 [Cantonese]  ―  fan¹ beng² zai² [Jyutping]  ―  to have a piece of the pie

6. (Cantonese) Classifier for flat objects, especially ones that are crumpled or tangled.

   一餅麵／一饼面 [Cantonese]  ―  jat¹ beng² min⁶ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   呢餅帶／呢饼带 [Cantonese]  ―  ni¹ beng² daai^3-2 [Jyutping]  ―  this cassette

   個去水口畀餅頭髮塞住咗。 [Cantonese, trad.]
   个去水口畀饼头发塞住咗。 [Cantonese, simp.]

   go³ heoi³ seoi² hau² bei² beng² tau⁴ faat³ sak¹ zyu⁶ zo². [Jyutping]

   The drain was jammed by a blob of hair.

7. (Cantonese, colloquial) ten thousand dollars
8. (Cantonese, fitness) 20 kilograms of weight
9. (Eastern Min) Classifier for pastry or flat objects.
10. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

    三餅金／三饼金  ―  sān bǐng jīn  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• → Khmer: បាញ់ (bañ, “cake, pastry”)
• → Lao: ແປ້ງ (pǣng, “flour; starch; powder”)
• → Thai: แป้ง (bpɛ̂ɛng, “powder; flour; starch”)
• → Vietnamese: bánh (“pastry; cake; bread”), bánh pía (“Suzhou-style mooncake”)

(Jōyō kanji)

1. mochi (glutinous rice cake)
2. food containing mochi
3. food kneaded and baked from flour

Note: according to the Kangxi Dictionary, the correct or traditional form of this kanji is 餠 but its form 餅 was already in general use before the post-war character simplifications, and is also recorded in the Kangxi Dictionary as a variant.

• Go-on: ひょう (hyō)^{←ひやう (fyau, historical)}
• Kan-on: へい (hei, Jōyō)
• Tō-on: ひん (hin)
• Kun: もち (mochi, 餅, Jōyō)、あも (amo)、かちん (kachin)、もちい (mochii, 餅)^{←もちひ (motifi, 餅, historical)}

/mot͡ɕiː/ → /mot͡ɕi/

Shift from older mochii, historical mochihi (see below).^[1][2] Now the modern term for a glutinous rice cake.

Compare モモンガ (momonga, “Japanese dwarf flying squirrel”), with a similar shift.

• (Tokyo) もち [mòchí] (Heiban – [0])^[3][4][5]
• IPA^(key): [mo̞t͡ɕi]

餅(もち) • (mochi) 

1. mochi (Japanese rice cake made from glutinous rice, usually mixed with other ingredients)

   Synonym: 糯飯, 餅飯 (mochi-ii)

   • 1996 February 20 [1988 February 15], Mitsuru Adachi, “テイク・オフ [Take Off]”, in SHORT(ショート) PROGRAM(プログラム) [SHORT PROGRAM], 25th edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 107:

     自(じ)分(ぶん)で自(じ)分(ぶん)の行(こう)動(どう)に条(じょう)件(けん)をつけちゃうんだよ、この娘(こ)——例(たと)えば、毎(まい)年(とし)初(はつ)雪(ゆき)が降(ふ)るまでモチは食(く)わないとか、霊(れい)柩(きゅう)車(しゃ)が通(とお)るまで道(みち)を渡(わた)らないとか、ネコがあくびするまでコタツを出(で)ないとか。

     Jibun de jibun no kōdō ni jōken o tsukechaun da yo, kono ko—— Tatoeba, maitoshi hatsuyuki ga furu made mochi wa kuwanai toka, reikyūsha ga tōru made michi o wataranai toka, neko ga akubisuru made kotatsu o denai toka.

     She sets terms for every of her own actions— Like, not eating mochi until the first snowfall of each year, not crossing the street until the hearse passes by, or not leaving the kotatsu until her cat yawns.

• 餅(もち)を搗(つ)く (mochi o tsuku)

• → Chinese: 麻糬 (máshǔ)
• → Chinese: 磨嘰 / 磨叽 (mòji)
• → English: mochi
• → Indonesian: moci
• → Macanese: múchi

• 糯(もち) (mochi)

餅(もち) • (Mochi) 

1. a surname

⟨moti ipi₁⟩ → */motipʲi/ → /mot͡ɕifi/ → /mot͡ɕiwi/ → /mot͡ɕiː/

First attested in the Wamyō Ruijushō (938 CE).

Shift from 糯飯 (mochi-ii), itself a compound of 糯 (mochi, “glutinous rice”) + 飯 (ii, “cooked grains”).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [mo̞t͡ɕiː]

餅(もちい) • (mochii) ^{←もちひ (motifi)?}

1. (archaic) mochi (Japanese rice cake made from glutinous rice, usually mixed with other ingredients)

First attested in Muromachi period texts.

Originally a 女房詞 (nyōbō kotoba, literally “woman's language”) term, derived as a compound of 搗ち (kachi), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 搗つ (katsu, “to pound in a mortar”) + 飯 (ii, “cooked grains”).^[1][2][3] The final ん (-n) is likely an informal suffix. Listed as cachin in the Nippo Jisho of 1603.^[6]

• IPA^(key): [ka̠t͡ɕĩɴ]

餅(かちん) • (kachin) 

1. (colloquial) mochi (Japanese rice cake made from glutinous rice, usually mixed with other ingredients)

   Synonym: おかちん (o-kachin)

/amːot͡ɕi/ → /amːo/ → /amo/

A shift from 餡餅 (anmochi, “red bean-paste mochi”), deriving from baby talk.^[1][2][3] Appears in the Nippo Jisho of 1603, described as “Palaura de mulheres, 🙰 mininos” (“a women's and children's word”).^[7]

• IPA^(key): [a̠mo̞]

餅(あも) • (amo) 

1. (usually childish) mochi filled or wrapped in red bean paste

   Synonym: 餡餅 (anmochi, anmo)

2. (usually childish, by extension) mochi (Japanese rice cake made from glutinous rice, usually mixed with other ingredients)

• 餡(あん)ころ餅(もち) (ankoro mochi, “mochi topped with anko”)

餅 (eumhun 떡 병 (tteok byeong))

1. alternative form of 餠 (“Hanja form^? of 병 (“rice cake”). ”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [3]

Cognate with Japanese 餅 (mochi).

餅(むーちー) (mūchī) 

1. mochi

餅: Hán Việt readings: bính
餅: Nôm readings: bính, bánh

餅 • (bánh)

1. Nôm form of bánh (“pastry, cake, bread, dumpling, noodle, wafer, or pudding”)
   • 13th century, Trần Nhân Tông, Cư trần lạc đạo phú, "Đệ cửu hội":

     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.

• Jean-Louis Taberd (1838) “餅”, in Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum [Nam Việt Dương Hiệp Tự vị, Vietnamese–Latin Dictionary]‎^[4] (in Vietnamese and Latin), 1st edition, Bengal: The Asiatic Society, page A4
• Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)