大饼 (dà bǐng) — a kind of big flatbread, typically a Chinese-st…

Definition

noun

a kind of big flatbread, typically a Chinese-style pancake

Measure word · 张

大饼。
Wǒ zǎo shàng chī le yí gè dà bǐng.
I ate a big flatbread this morning.
大饼。
Zhè jiā diàn de dà bǐng zuò dé hěn hǎo chī.
The big flatbread at this shop is delicious.
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Tā mǎi le liǎng zhāng dà bǐng huí jiā.
He bought two big flatbreads to take home.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

饼bǐngflatbread

A 大饼, a large flatbread.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The form 大 is a picture of a person standing and facing forward, not of someone stretching their arms.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 餅; 饼 is its simplified writing.

飠并餅

Meaning part形符xíngfú

飠Written in full as食shífood

Sound part声符shēngfú

并

Same sound today

The traditional form 餅 pairs 飠 (food) with 并 for the sound; the simplified 饼 is a shorthand.