bǐng
rice-cakes
Phonosemantic compound. 飠 represents the meaning and 并 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 餅
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
cookie | ||
biscuit | ||
pie | ||
mooncake (esp. for the Mid-Autumn Festival) | ||
pancake |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*peŋʔ | pjiengX | bǐng | cake |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 27.1504% of movies
1082nd most common character in movies
2359th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 14 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+9905 |
Shuowen | “餅,麪餈也。从食,并聲。” |
Sources
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