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    3. 餅

    餅

    餅もち

    mochi rice cake

    KMT10Freq #2152Food & DiningCulture & TraditionsKanji14 strokes

    Kun'yomi

    もちもちい

    On'yomi

    ヘイヒョウ

    mochi rice cake

    ⻞并

    干
    十

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    餠絣駢骭併垪胼塀餌飭餠

    Concepts using this kanji

    煎餅

    (Japanese) rice cracker

    餅

    mochi

    五十日の餅

    mochi used for the celebration of a child's fiftieth day

    三日の餅

    Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

    三日夜の餅

    Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

    五平餅

    skewered sweet rice cakes served with soy sauce and miso

    大福餅

    rice cake stuffed with sweet bean jam

    安倍川餅

    abekawa mochi

    羽二重餅

    Habutae mochi

    大根餅

    turnip cake (dim sum dish)

    月餅

    mooncake

    力餅

    fortifying mochi

    大食上戸餅食らい

    eating a lot, drinking a lot, and on top of that, eating mochi

    画餅に帰す

    to come to nothing

    水の餅

    mochi offered when drawing the first water of the year

    水餅

    mochi soaked in water (to protect against mold)

    餅代

    money to see one over the New Year period

    鹿の子餅

    mochi containing red bean paste

    餅投げ

    throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building

    鳥の子餅

    red and white oval rice cakes

    餅巾着

    mochikinchaku

    赤福餅

    anko-coated mochi (from Ise, Mie pref.)

    画餅

    something useless

    重ね餅

    small mochi placed on top of a big mochi

    供え餅

    offering of mochi rice cakes

    供餅

    mochi rice cakes used as offering

    切り餅

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

    餅病

    rice cake disease

    信玄餅

    shingen mochi (sweet made by Kinseiken)

    餅負い

    custom of tying a large mochi on a toddler's back on his or her first birthday

    一升餅

    large mochi (usu. used for ceremonies)

    餅花

    New Year's decoration of willow, etc. branches with colored rice balls

    花びら餅

    sweet burdock and miso-bean paste covered with a thin layer of mochi

    黄金餅

    millet dough cake

    空也餅

    chunky mochi made with half-polished rice, stuffed with red bean paste

    餅菓子

    bean-jam cake

    山椒餅

    mochi with sanshō (Sichuan pepper)

    鶴の子餅

    red and white egg-shaped mochi

    焼き餅焼くとて手を焼くな

    keep your jealousy in check, lest you invite misfortune

    亥の子餅

    day-of-the-Boar mochi (made with new grains)

    餅屋

    rice cake shop keeper

    伸し餅

    flattened rice cakes

    環餅

    pastry made of dough pulled into various shapes and fried

    絵に描いた餅

    pie in the sky

    愛敬の餅

    Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony

    磯辺餅

    fried mochi covered in soy sauce and wrapped in nori

    餅病菌

    rice cake disease bacteria

    血餅

    (blood) clot

    餅踏み

    custom of having toddlers step on a sticky rice cake on their first birthday

    草餅

    rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort

    餅草

    Japanese mugwort (Artemisia princeps)

    高麗餅

    kōraimochi

    葱油餅

    scallion pancake

    御焼き餅

    roasted mochi

    賃餅

    rice cakes made after the customer has paid for them

    餅盤

    laccolith

    柚餅子

    sweet yuzu-flavoured steamed dumpling

    索餅

    sakubei

    菱餅

    rhombus-shaped mochi

    桜餅

    rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a preserved cherry leaf

    氷餅

    mochi freeze-dried in the winter air

    栃餅

    cake made from pounded horse chestnuts and mochi rice

    餅網

    grill or grate for toasting rice cakes

    豆餅

    mame mochi

    揚げ餅

    agemochi

    餅は餅屋

    every man knows his own business best

    寒餅

    mochi made in winter

    濃餅汁

    soup with fried tofu, shiitake mushrooms, carrots, sweet potatoes and daikon flavored with salt or soy sauce and thickened with potato starch

    餅粉

    glutinous rice flour

    萩の餅

    rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour or sesame

    葛餅

    kudzu starch cake

    尻餅

    falling on one's backside

    尻餅をつく

    to fall on one's backside

    辻占煎餅

    Japanese fortune cookie

    柏餅

    rice cake wrapped in oak leaves

    餡餅

    mochi rice cake with red bean jam filling

    棚からぼた餅

    sudden windfall

    蒸し餅

    steamed mochi

    蒸餅

    steamed mochi

    柿餅

    persimmon-filled mochi

    汁の餅

    mochi received from one's parents after giving birth (trad. eaten in miso soup to improve lactation)

    鏡餅

    kagami mochi

    椿餅

    rice-cake sweet sandwiched between two camellia leaves

    蓮餅

    lotus root-starch dumpling

    うぐいす餅

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

    あんころ餅

    mochi wrapped with sweet bean jam

    餅まき

    throwing of mochi to an assembled crowd, esp. during the framework-raising ceremony of a new building

    お餅

    mochi

    ぼた餅

    adzuki bean-covered mochi

    よもぎ餅

    rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort

    餅つき

    pounding mochi

    かき餅

    mochi cut thin, dried, and baked or fried

    わらび餅

    bracken-starch dumpling

    きなこ餅

    kinako mochi

    餅いなり

    sticky rice wrapped in deep-fried tofu

    あられ餅

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

    糝粉餅

    rice flour dough

    瓦煎餅

    tile-shaped rice-cracker

    粟餅

    millet dough cake

    ぬれ煎餅

    moist rice cracker

    ソース煎餅

    sauce-flavoured rice crackers

    餅餤

    Heian-period pastry made of duck or goose eggs mixed with vegetables boiled and wrapped in mochi which is then cut into squares

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    • お餅
    • 安倍川餅
    • 画餅
    • ぼた餅
    • 絵に描いた餅
    • 血餅
    • 伸し餅
    • 煎餅
    • 餅
    • 鏡餅
    • 尻餅
    • 寒餅
    • 餅網
    • 葛餅
    • 大福餅
    • 賃餅
    • 桜餅
    • 菱餅
    • 柏餅
    • 瓦煎餅
    • 餅屋
    • 草餅
    • 餅草
    • よもぎ餅
    • 棚からぼた餅
    • 餅つき
    • 粟餅
    • かき餅
    • 餅餤
    • わらび餅
    • きなこ餅
    • 餡餅
    • 尻餅をつく
    • 萩の餅
    • 餅いなり
    • 餅は餅屋
    • あられ餅
    • 重ね餅
    • 蒸し餅
    • 蒸餅
    • 水の餅
    • 水餅
    • 鹿の子餅
    • 餅菓子
    • 餅代
    • 羽二重餅
    • 空也餅
    • うぐいす餅
    • 供え餅
    • 餅花
    • 黄金餅
    • 山椒餅
    • 濃餅汁
    • 柚餅子
    • 高麗餅
    • 鶴の子餅
    • 亥の子餅
    • 糝粉餅
    • 鳥の子餅
    • 月餅
    • 御焼き餅
    • 花びら餅
    • 餅粉
    • 餅病
    • 餅病菌
    • 三日の餅
    • 三日夜の餅
    • 愛敬の餅
    • 環餅
    • 餅盤
    • あんころ餅
    • 供餅
    • 葱油餅
    • 蓮餅
    • 切り餅
    • 餅巾着
    • 椿餅
    • 氷餅
    • 栃餅
    • 大根餅
    • 柿餅
    • 汁の餅
    • 力餅
    • 餅踏み
    • 餅負い
    • 一升餅
    • 五平餅
    • 赤福餅
    • 餅まき
    • 餅投げ
    • 磯辺餅
    • 画餅に帰す
    • 五十日の餅
    • ぬれ煎餅
    • 大食上戸餅食らい
    • ソース煎餅
    • 焼き餅焼くとて手を焼くな
    • 揚げ餅
    • 辻占煎餅
    • 索餅
    • 豆餅
    • 信玄餅

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