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jianbing

jianbing noun: a thin Chinese fried-egg pancake similar to a crepe, typically sold as street food.

jianbing: a thin Chinese fried-egg pancake similar to a crepe, typically sold as street food
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Noun

jianbing (plural jianbing or jianbings)

  1. A thin Chinese fried-egg pancake similar to a crepe, typically sold as street food.
    • She spends her free time dancing, hiking the wilds of the Great Wall, biking through the lake district, and munching on jianbings in her hutong.2006 summer, Julia Herwood, Athenia Fischer, “Class Notes”, in Matt Jennings, editor, Middlebury Magazine, volume 80, number 3, Middlebury, Vt.: Middlebury College, →ISSN, →OCLC, 04 section, page 79...
    • At last month’s Boao Forum for Asia, a business conference, organisers were keen to dish out jianbing, a savoury pancake that is a typical Chinese street food, made by a robotic arm in a booth, similar to the claws that collect stuffed toys in an arcade (the resulting snack was not as crispy as a...2025 April 21, Amy Hawkins, “Humanoid workers and surveillance buggies: ‘embodied AI’ is reshaping daily life in China”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

jianbing meaning in Vietnamese

jianbing in Vietnamese

thin fried egg Chinese pancake similar to a crepe
bánh chiên giòn

Forms of jianbing

pluraljianbing
pluraljianbings

Origin of jianbing

From Mandarin 煎餅／煎饼 (jiānbǐng). Doublet of senbei.

Phrases with jianbing

Questions about jianbing

What does jianbing mean?
Jianbing means a thin Chinese fried-egg pancake similar to a crepe, typically sold as street food.
What is jianbing in Vietnamese?
Jianbing in Vietnamese is bánh chiên giòn. See Jianbing meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is jianbing?
Jianbing is a noun.
What is the plural of jianbing?
The plural of jianbing is jianbing.

Words near jianbing in the dictionary

  1. Jian ware
  2. Jian'an
  3. Jian'ou
  4. Jiana
  5. Jianan
  6. jianbing
  7. jianbing guozi
  8. jianbings
  9. Jiancaoping
  10. Jianchang
  11. Jiande

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