饼
flatbread; cake-like food
Meanings
2 senses · 10 examplesnoun
flat baked/steamed wheat cake
Refers to traditional Chinese wheat-based flatbreads and similar staple foods.
Mom baked a sweet corn flatbread this morning.
We eat mooncakes and admire the moon during Mid-Autumn Festival.
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The sesame seed cakes at this shop are crispy outside and tender inside, very delicious.
Northern Chinese often eat flatbread wrapped with scallions for breakfast.
I bought three flatbreads for lunch.
noun
cake-like solid object
Used for non-food items with a flat, round shape, often with the suffix "儿" in colloquial speech.
Workers pour molten iron into molds to make iron discs.
Grandma ground beans into powder and pressed them into bean cakes for feed.
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We use coal briquettes to keep warm in winter.
Dried persimmon cakes dried in autumn are sweet and chewy.
The top of this solar street lamp has a flat photovoltaic panel shaped like a cake.