bánh

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔɓajŋ̟˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔɓɛɲ˦˧˥]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʔɓan˦˥]

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 餅 (“flour-based food”, SV: bính). Cognate with Muong pẻng.

A folk etymology claims that bánh is a corruption of French pain. However, this is clearly false as the word is attested in early Vietnamese texts such as Cư trần lạc đạo phú (居塵樂道賦, 13th century) and Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經, 12th century), which were published long before French contact with Vietnam.

(classifier chiếc, tấm, ổ) bánh • (𩛄 - 𥹘, 𬖪, 𤖶, 餅)

1. a broad, vaguely defined term, mostly used by collocation or intuition, for foods that come in a specific shape or solid (a flat piece, a block, a ball, a loaf, etc.) and that are often made from grain or legume flour or plain rice, by size often larger than and contrasted with what is known as kẹo (“candy”)
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bánh.

   bánh kẹo ― sweets (literally, “bánh and candy”)

   Hôm nay ăn bánh thay cơm.

   Today let's eat dumplings/pastries/bread instead of rice.

   bà hàng bán bánh ― the lady selling dumplings/pastries

   bánh bao ― baozi

   nhân bánh ― dumpling/pastry filling

   bánh sinh nhật ― birthday cake

   bánh mì Pháp ― French bread (literally, "French wheat cake")

   bánh mì kẹp kem ― ice cream in Vietnamese baguette (literally, "ice cream sandwich")

2. (cooking) certain types of noodles in their raw forms

   bánh phở ― pho noodle(s)

3. a cake (a block of any of various dense materials)
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bánh.

   bánh xà phòng (bánh xà bông) ― a cake of soap

• Not all noodles are called bánh: depending on the composition and production method, some noodles are considered bún, mì, miến, etc.
• Not all cakes are called bánh: those made of meat are considered chả (“patty”), e.g. chả cá (“fishcake”), chả lụa (“pork roll”), and chả trứng (“egg roll”).
• Bánh is used with various classifiers, depending on the general shape of the item. A loaf of bánh is classified as chiếc in northern Vietnam but ổ in southern Vietnam. Tấm is used for wafers and the like.
• Bánh is usually used as a generic word to refer to certain solid foods shaped round, flat, or puffy (e.g.: Cái loại bánh đó gọi là gì nhỉ? À, pi-da.)

• Various traditional bánh foods
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  bánh bao
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  bánh bèo
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  bánh bò
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  bánh bột lộc
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  bánh canh
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  bánh chưng
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  bánh cuốn
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  bánh da lợn
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  bánh đa
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  bánh đậu xanh
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  bánh đúc
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  bánh gai
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  bánh giầy
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  bánh gối
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  bánh hỏi
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  bánh in
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  bánh kẹp
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  bánh khọt
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  bánh khúc
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  bánh lễ
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  bánh lọt
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  bánh mì
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  bánh pía
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  bánh phở
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  bánh rán
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  bánh tét
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  bánh tráng
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  bánh trung thu
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  bánh xèo

Cognate with Muong bẻnh

(classifier chiếc) bánh • (𨋣 - 軿)

1. a wheel
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bánh.

   xe bốn bánh ― four-wheeled vehicle

bánh

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 鍠 (“weapon/trident/sound of drums/bells”)
2. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 碰/掽 (“collide/meet/offend”)
3. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 庳 (“low/short”)
4. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 䗒 (“clam”)
5. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 蟔 (“caterpillar”)
6. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 蓻
7. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 榵

• "bánh" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
• Hà Quang Phùng (2012-09-06), “Tìm hiểu về ngữ pháp tiếng Mường (Thim hiếu wuê ngử pháp thiểng Mường) [Understanding Muong grammar]”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎ (FlashPaper, in Vietnamese, Muong), Thanh Sơn–Phú Thọ Province Continuing Education Center, archived from the original on 2013-12-17, retrieved 23 December 2013