煎餅

煎餅

1. jianbing (thin, fried egg Chinese pancake similar to a crepe); flatbread (e.g. roti canai); fried pancake (e.g. bánh xèo)

Others:

• (Tokyo) せ​んべー [séꜜǹbèè] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [sẽ̞mbe̞ː]

煎(せん)餅(べい) • (senbei) 

1. 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.

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)

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   • 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.

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   • 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

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• 辻占(つじうら)煎餅(せんべい) (tsujiura senbei, “fortune cookie”)

• → Chinese: 仙貝／仙贝 (xiānbèi)

• 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

Cognate with Japanese 煎餅 (senbei).

煎(しん)餅(びー) (shinbī) 

1. rice cracker