饼
bǐng · HSK 5
pancake
🥞 饼 = 食 (food) + 并 (bing, phonetic) — round flat food
The 食 radical on the left marks it as edible; 并 supplies the bǐng sound. Covers pancakes, tortillas, mooncakes, and disc-shaped baked goods — anything round and flat made of dough.
饼 — food radical 飠/食 + 并 (bìng, phonetic)
饼 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The left side 食/飠 ('food, eat') signals the meaning category, while the right side 并 supplies the sound. Originally referring to round flat wheat cakes, it now broadly names cakes, biscuits, and pancakes.