# 煎餅
## Chinese

* 煎餅 (Written Standard Chinese)
* Jianbing (English)

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): jiānbǐng
    (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄢ ㄅㄧㄥˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): zin$^1$ beng$^2$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): chian-piáⁿ
* 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: chien$^1$-ping$^5$
*** Yale: jyān-bing
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jian.biing
*** Palladius: цзяньбин (czjanʹbin)
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ piŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/ → /t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ b̥iŋ²/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: zin$^1$ beng$^2$
*** Yale: jīn béng
*** Cantonese Pinyin: dzin$^1$ beng$^2$
*** Guangdong Romanization: jin$^1$ béng$^2$
*** Sinological IPA : /t͡siːn⁵⁵ pɛːŋ³⁵/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chian-piáⁿ
*** Tâi-lô: tsian-piánn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: cienpviar
*** IPA (Xiamen): /t͡siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² piã⁵³/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡siɛn³³ piã⁵⁵⁴/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡siɛn⁴⁴⁻²² piã⁵³/
*** IPA (Taipei): /t͡siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ piã⁵³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ piã⁴¹/

### Noun

煎餅
* 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

* → Japanese: 煎(せん)餅(べい) (senbei, “rice cracker”)
Others:
* → Manchu: ᠵᡝᠮᡦᡳᠨ (jempin)

## Japanese
### Pronunciation

Kanji in this term :
| 煎 | 餅 |
| せん Grade: S | へい > べい Grade: S |
| on'yomi ||
* Alternative spelling
* 煎餠 (kyūjitai)
* (Tokyo) せんべー [séꜜǹbèè] (Atamadaka –)
* IPA: [sẽ̞mbe̞ː]

### Noun

煎(せん)餅(べい) • (senbei)
* 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.
* 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)
** 1603–1604, 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.(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)

#### 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 with 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 [1597], →ISBN
* Tōjō, Misao (1941) [1775] Butsurui Shōko (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

## Okinawan

Kanji in this term :
| 煎 | 餅 |
| 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

煎(しん)餅(びー) (shinbī)
* rice cracker