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餅

mochi rice cake

StatusJōyō · secondary schoolFrequencyTop 5,000Strokes14

Readings

On'yomi

  • ヘイ
  • ヒョウ

Kun'yomi

  • もち
  • もちい

Meaning

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

Most common words using 餅

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  • 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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Etymology

餅 combines the food radical 飠 with 并, which likely contributes the sound. The character originally referred to a type of rice cake.

Meaning mnemonic

The food radical 飠 tells you this is something edible. The right side 并 looks like a stack of two round rice cakes, one on top of the other, ready to be pounded into mochi.

Reading mnemonic

For ヘイ, imagine a heavy mochi rice cake: heavy -> ヘイ, and the weight of the mochi makes it satisfying to eat.