比萨饼 (bǐ sà bǐng) — pizza | TongTong Chinese Dictionary

Definition

noun

pizza

Measure word · 张

Examples

比萨饼。
Wǒ men diǎn yí gè bǐ sà bǐng ba.
Let's order a pizza.
比萨饼。
Zhè jiā diàn de bǐ sà bǐng wèi dào hěn hǎo.
The pizza at this restaurant tastes great.
比萨饼？
Nǐ xǐ huan chī bǐ sà bǐng ma?
Do you like eating pizza?

Origin

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.

比萨Pizza

比bǐ萨sà

饼bǐngcake

A pizza cake: 比萨 gives the sound Pizza, 饼 means a baked flat food.

Characters in this word

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

匕匕bǐ
匕匕bǐ

比 is two 匕 placed side by side. Chu Wan-li treats both as sound parts, while an old reading takes the side-by-side arrangement as putting things next to each other.

Open 比 →

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 萨 →

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

并bìng餅bǐng

Same sound today