豆饼 (dòu bǐng) — soybean cake (pressed soybean residue used as a…

Definition

noun

soybean cake (pressed soybean residue used as animal feed or fertilizer)

Measure word · 块

豆饼。
Nóng mín yòng dòu bǐng wèi zhū.
Farmers use soybean cake to feed pigs.
豆饼。
dòu bǐng Shì yì zhǒng hěn hǎo de yǒu jī féi liào.
Soybean cake is a very good organic fertilizer.
豆饼。
Zhè zhǒng dòu bǐng shì cóng dà dòu zhōng tí qǔ yóu hòu shèng xià de.
This kind of soybean cake is what remains after extracting oil from soybeans.

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.

豆 refers to beans and 饼 is a cake or pressed block, so the word names a bean cake.

Characters in this word

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

豆 originally drew some kind of container. It was borrowed for its sound to write the plant name, so the picture and the meaning are unrelated.

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.

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