mochi-based confectionery; rice-cake sweets
A broad category of traditional Japanese sweets made with mochi (glutinous rice cake), often filled with sweet bean paste or coated with kinako or nori.
I bought some mochi sweets as a souvenir.
この店の餅菓子は、あんこがたっぷり入っていて美味しい。
The mochi sweets at this shop are delicious, with plenty of sweet bean paste inside.
Standard kanji spelling.
Variant with kana for もち; less common but still seen.
Compound of 餅 (mochi, 'glutinous rice cake') and 菓子 (kashi, 'confectionery').