餅乾

简 饼干 · 繁 餅乾
Mandarin · pinyin bǐng gān

Meanings

  1. biscuit; cracker; cookie
  2. Classifier: 片 piàn, 塊 kuài
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餅
bǐng · rice-cakes, biscuits
乾
qián · gān · dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
饼
bǐng · rice-cakes, biscuits
干
gàn · oppose, offend; invade; dried
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3–1 · bing3 gan1

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beng2 gon1

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noun

  1. biscuit; cracker; cookie (Classifier: 塊/块 m c)

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