班戟

bānjǐ
noun

Measure Word

Meanings

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

Examples

Tiánpǐn diàn zhāopái shì mángguǒ bānjǐ.
The dessert shop's signature is mango pancake.
Zhè jiā bānjǐ pí tèbié báo.
This place's pancake wrapper is especially thin.

Tips

register
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).

Stroke Order

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