Hanja Analyzer
餅

餅 — byeong

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
떡 병
Romanization
byeong
English
rice-cakes, biscuits
Mandarin
bǐng
Japanese on'yomi
ヘイ
Japanese kun'yomi
もち もちい
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Secondary (Jōyō)
Newspaper frequency
#2,152 of 2,500
Strokes
14
Variant forms
餠
Radical
食 (184, 6 residual)
Unicode
U+9905

Parts that make up 餅

  • ⻞ 밥/먹을 식, 밥 먹일 사variant of 食 받침에 올린 밥그릇과 입먹는 일과 먹을 것
  • 并 아우를 병 나란히 선 사람 둘아우르는 일. ‘병’ 계열의 소리

How 餅 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 餅 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 食, 并.

Japanese words with 餅

  • 餅もち mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice
  • 煎餅せんべい (Japanese) rice cracker; senbei
  • お餅おもち mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice
  • 画餅がべい something useless; picture of rice cakes
  • 血餅けっぺい (blood) clot
  • 鏡餅かがみもち kagami mochi; New Year offering consisting of two mochi stacked on each other with a bitter orange on top, cut and eaten on January 11
  • 尻餅しりもち falling on one's backside; pratfall; mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday
  • 寒餅かんもち mochi made in winter
  • 餅網もちあみ grill or grate for toasting rice cakes
  • 葛餅くずもち kudzu starch cake; pudding-like arrowroot cake
  • 賃餅ちんもち rice cakes made after the customer has paid for them
  • 桜餅さくらもち rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a pickled cherry leaf

Other hanja read “병”

Other hanja with radical 食

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