班戟

bānjǐ
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

  1. 1 Hong Kong style pancake
  2. 2 pancake (esp. stuffed with fruit and cream)

Examples

HSK 6
Zhè jiā bānjǐ pí tèbié báo.
This place's pancake wrapper is especially thin.
HSK 7-9
Tiánpǐn diàn zhāopai shì mángguǒ bānjǐ.
The dessert shop's signature is mango pancake.

Tips

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Cantonese transliteration of English 'pancake'. Most common in Hong Kong and Guangdong dessert shops; a 芒果班戟 is a classic mango-and-cream rolled pancake.
culture
Though borrowed from English 'pancake', 班戟 in Chinese almost always refers to the thin-skinned rolled dessert, not American-style fluffy breakfast pancakes (那种叫松饼).

Stroke Order

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