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饼 bǐng ricecake

ricecake; pastry; biscuit; round flat cake

How to remember 饼: 饣 food + 并 to combine = ricecake. At the food market, Grandma buys a snack that tries to combine a cookie with a sweet ricecake.

  • 2,359. most frequent character
  • HSK 4
  • 9 strokes
  • Radical 食

Component breakdown

饼 = 饣 food + 并 to combine

  • 饣 food
  • 并 to combine
    • 丷 horns
    • 开 open
      • 一 one
      • 廾 two hands
The Gushi story

At the food market, Grandma buys a snack that tries to combine a cookie with a sweet ricecake.

How it is used

  • A flat round cake/pastry/biscuit - 饼干 (bǐnggān) biscuit/cracker, 月饼 (yuèbing) mooncake.
  • The bare 饼 covers savory flatbreads too: 煎饼 (jiānbing) a Chinese crepe, 大饼 (dàbǐng) flatbread.
  • 画饼充饥 (huàbǐng-chōngjī) = "draw a cake to stave off hunger," i.e. console yourself with fantasies.

Words with 饼

Example sentences

  • 她正在吃饼干。 Tā zhèng zài chī bǐnggān.She is eating cookies.