mochi; glutinous rice cake
Polite form of 餅 (もち). Refers to the soft, chewy rice cake made from pounded glutinous rice, often eaten on special occasions or in soups.
We eat mochi during the New Year.
There is mochi in the ozoni soup.
Honorific prefix 御 is less common in everyday writing; mostly seen in formal or traditional contexts.
Polite form of 餅 (もち), with the honorific prefix お. 餅 itself is a native Japanese word for pounded glutinous rice cake.