餅

Meaning

餅 centers on the traditional Japanese rice cake, mochi, made from pounded glutinous rice. The meaning is specific to this food item.

• 餅もち
  N2

  mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice

• 煎餅せんべい
  N1

  (Japanese) rice cracker; senbei

• 桜餅さくらもち

  rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a pickled cherry leaf

• 月餅げっぺい

  mooncake; disc-shaped confection of wheat-flour dough filled with bean paste, usu. eaten during Autumn in China

• 鏡餅かがみもち

  kagami mochi; New Year offering consisting of two mochi stacked on each other with a bitter orange on top, cut and eaten on January 11

• 餅屋もちや

  rice cake shop keeper; rice cake store (shop)

• 菱餅ひしもち

  rhombus-shaped mochi

• 尻餅しりもち

  falling on one's backside; pratfall

• 柏餅かしわもち

  rice cake wrapped in oak leaves

• 草餅くさもち

  rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort; mugwort rice cake

• ぼた餅ぼたもち

  adzuki bean-covered mochi; botamochi

• 切り餅きりもち

  rice cakes cut into rectangles (esp. eaten on New Year's Day)

• あられ餅あられもち

  roasted mochi pieces (usu. flavoured with soy sauce, or sweetened with sugar, etc.)

• あんころ餅あんころもち

  mochi wrapped with sweet bean jam

• うぐいす餅うぐいすもち

  mochi filled with red bean paste and topped with green soy flour

• お餅おもち

  mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice

• かき餅かきもち

  mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried

• きなこ餅きなこもち

  kinako mochi; mochi coated in sweetened soy flour

• ずんだ餅ずんだもち

  zunda mochi; mochi covered in zunda

• そなえ餅そなえもち

  offering of mochi rice cakes; mochi rice cakes used as offering

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