煎餅

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
• Min Nan (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): /t͡ɕjɛn⁵⁵ piŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ → /t͡ɕjɛn⁵⁵ b̥iŋ²/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: zin¹ beng²
    • Yale: jīn béng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzin¹ beng²
    • Guangdong Romanization: jin¹ béng²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡siːn⁵⁵ pɛːŋ³⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chian-piáⁿ
    • Tâi-lô: tsian-piánn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: cienpviar
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡ɕiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² piã⁵³/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡ɕiɛn³³ piã⁵⁵⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡ɕiɛn⁴⁴⁻²² piã⁵³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡ɕiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ piã⁵³/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡ɕiɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ 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)

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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)

• On’yomi
• (Tokyo) せ​んべー [séꜜǹbèè] (Atamadaka – [1])[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
   • 931–938, Minamoto no Shitagō, Wamyō Ruijushō (book 4, page 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; 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, →ISBN
• Tōjō, Misao (1941) Butsurui Shōko (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN

1. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

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Okinawan

Kanji in this term
煎	餅
しん Grade: S	ひー > びー Grade: S
on’yomi

Etymology

Cognate with Japanese 煎餅 (senbei).

Noun

煎餅 (hiragana しんびー, rōmaji shinbī)

1. rice cracker