Meaning of 饼干
Definitions from CC-CEDICT.
- biscuit; cracker; cookie
Measure word: 片,塊|块
How to use 饼干
饼干 covers sweet cookies, plain crackers and biscuits alike, and it is counted with 块 (kuài) for pieces or 包 (bāo) for packets. Example: 我买了一包饼干。(Wǒ mǎi le yì bāo bǐnggān.) I bought a packet of cookies.
饼 (bǐng) is a flat cake, and 干 (gān) means dry. A dry flat cake is a biscuit or cookie, which is exactly what 饼干 is.
Common mistake: Learners often read 干 here as gàn, the tone used in 干活儿 (gànhuór) and 能干 (nénggàn). In 饼干 it means dry and is first tone: bǐnggān, the same gān as in 干净 (gānjìng).
饼干 in example sentences
Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.
Stroke order for each character
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饼 bǐng · round flat cake · 9 strokes
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干 gān · dry · 3 strokes
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Related words
Words that share a character with 饼干.
| 干什么 | gàn shénme | what are you doing?; what's he up to? |
| 干净 | gānjìng | clean; neat |
| 干杯 | gānbēi | to drink a toast; Cheers! (proposing a toast) |
| 干活儿 | gànhuór | erhua variant of 幹活|干活[gan4 huo2] |
| 干吗 | gànmá | variant of 幹嘛|干嘛[gan4 ma2] |
| 能干 | nénggàn | capable; competent |
| 干脆 | gāncuì | candid; direct and to the point |
| 干扰 | gānrǎo | to disturb; to interfere |
| 干预 | gānyù | to meddle; to intervene |
| 月饼 | yuèbing | mooncake (esp. for the Mid-Autumn Festival) |
| 干涉 | gānshè | to interfere; to meddle |
| 干燥 | gānzào | (of weather, climate, soil etc) dry; arid; (of skin, mouth etc) dry |
Questions about 饼干
What does 饼干 mean?
饼干 (bǐnggān) means "biscuit; cracker; cookie" and is used as a noun.
How do you write 饼干?
饼干 is made of 2 characters: 饼 (9 strokes), 干 (3 strokes). That is 12 strokes in total.
Is 饼干 an HSK word?
Yes. 饼干 is on the HSK 5 vocabulary list of the HSK 3.0 standard.
How is 饼干 written in traditional Chinese?
In traditional characters, 饼干 is written 餅乾.
Why is 干 pronounced differently in 饼干 and 干什么?
The simplified 干 merges two traditional characters. 乾 (gān) means dry, as in 餅乾, while 幹 (gàn) means to do, as in 干什么 (gàn shénme).
Is there a separate Chinese word for cookie versus cracker?
In everyday speech 饼干 is used for both. If you need to be specific, you can say 曲奇 (qūqí) for butter cookies or 苏打饼干 (sūdá bǐnggān) for soda crackers.