餅

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *peŋʔ) : semantic 飠 (“food”) + phonetic 幷 (as in 餠); phonetic component now simplified to 并.

餅

1. pastry; biscuit; cookie

   月餅 / 月饼  ―  yuèbǐng  ―  mooncake

   曲奇餅 / 曲奇饼  ―  qūqíbǐng  ―  cookie

2. any round and flat pancake-like object

   肉餅 / 肉饼  ―  ròubǐng  ―  meat patty

3. (Cantonese) Classifier for video cassettes.

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

4. (Min Dong) Classifier for pastry or flat objects.
5. 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 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”)

(common “Jōyō” kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 餠)

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

• 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, historical)}

餅 (mochi): a pair of glutinous rice cakes

/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.

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

餅 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 餠, hiragana もち, katakana モチ, rōmaji mochi)

1. mochi (Japanese rice cake made from glutinous rice, usually mixed with other ingredients)
   • 1996 February 20 [Feb 15 1988], Adachi, Mitsuru, “テイク・オフ [Take Off]”, in SHORT PROGRAMショート・プログラム [SHORT PROGRAM], volume 1 (fiction), 25th edition, 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.

   Synonym: 糯飯, 餅飯 (mochi-ii)

• 餅 (もち)を搗 (つ)く (mochi o tsuku)

• → Chinese: 麻糬
• → English: mochi
• → Indonesian: moci

• 糯 (もち) (mochi), 糯米 (もちごめ) (mochigome, “glutinous rice”)

餅 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 餠, hiragana もち, rōmaji 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]

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [mo̞t͡ɕiː]

餅 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 餠, hiragana もちい, rōmaji mochii, historical hiragana もちひ)

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]

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [ka̠t͡ɕĩɴ]

餅 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 餠, hiragana かちん, rōmaji 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]

• Kun’yomi
  • IPA^(key): [a̠mo̞]

餅 (shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai kanji 餠, hiragana あも, rōmaji 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 • (byeong)

• Eumhun:
  • Sound (hangeul): 병 (revised: byeong)
  • Name (hangeul): 떡 (revised: tteok)

1. cake

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

餅 (bánh)

1. pastry, cake, bread, dumpling, noodle, wafer, or pudding
   • 13th century: Trần Nhân Tông, "Đệ cửu hội", Cư trần lạc đạo phú

     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), Dictionarium Anamitico-Latinum, p. A4.
• Lê Sơn Thanh, "Nom-Viet.dat", WinVNKey (details)