HSK 4 · Food

饼干 bǐnggān “biscuit” in Chinese

Traditional 餅乾

What 饼干 means

  1. biscuit
  2. cracker

Measure word 片 piàn or 块 kuài · 一片饼干 yí piàn bǐnggān

How to say 饼干

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale饼bǐng3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale干gān1st tone, high and level

饼干 in a sentence

  1. 想吃多少饼干就吃多少。

    Xiǎng chī duōshǎo bǐnggān jiù chī duōshǎo.

    Have as many biscuits as you like.

    Sentence #333226 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 是谁把饼干都给吃了？

    Shì shéi bǎ bǐnggān dōu gěi chī le?

    Who ate all the biscuits?

    Sentence #10725048 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

  3. 她打开了一包饼干。

    Tā dǎkāi le yì bāo bǐnggān.

    She opened a packet of biscuits.

    Sentence #10209275 from Tatoeba

How 饼干 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 饼 (bǐng) with each of its parts in a different colour
饼bǐnground flat cake
  • 饣eat form of 食 · shíMeaning part
  • 并to combine · bìngSound part

饣 hints at the meaning (eat); 并 (bìng) hints at the sound. Compare it with bǐng.

The character 干 (gān) with each of its parts in a different colour
干gāndry
  • 一one · yī
  • 十ten · shí

Memory aidDrawn from a forked stick used as a weapon or shield. As a simplified character it also stands for 乾 “dry” and 幹 “to do”.

How to write 饼干

饼 9 strokes · 干 3 strokes

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饼干 (bǐnggān) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 饼干 (bǐnggān). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 饼干

Words with 干

干净gānjìng · clean干gān · dry干杯gānbēi · to drink a toast干燥gānzào · dry (weather干脆gāncuì · simply能干nénggàn · capable干活儿gànhuór · to work干扰gānrǎo · to disturb干涉gānshè · to interfere干预gānyù · to intervene

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FAQs

饼干 (bǐnggān) means “biscuit” or “cracker”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it bǐnggān: bǐng with a 3rd tone, then gān with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 饼干 is written 餅乾. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 片 (piàn) or 块 (kuài). For example, one biscuit is 一片饼干 (yí piàn bǐnggān).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type binggan with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 饼干 from the suggestions. Typing binggan into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
饼干 is an HSK 4 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.