煎餅

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See also: 煎饼

Chinese

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

Others:

Japanese

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senbei rice cracker

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. 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) (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)

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Descendants

References

  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (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