bánh

noun

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”)

   “bánh kẹo”

2. certain types of noodles in their raw forms

   “bánh phở”

3. a cake (a block of any of various dense materials)

   “bánh xà phòng (bánh xà bông)”

noun

1. a wheel

   “xe bốn bánh”

romanization

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”)