餅
mochi; mochi rice cake
15 strokes. Jōyō kanji, taught in secondary school. Newspaper frequency rank 2152.
Readings
- もち (kun reading): 餅 (もち) mochi; 桜餅 (さくらもち) rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a pickled cherry leaf
- ヘイ (on reading): 煎餅 (せんべい) (Japanese) rice cracker; 月餅 (げっぺい) mooncake
- ヒョウ (on reading)
- もちい (kun reading): 餅いなり (もちいなり) sticky rice wrapped in deep-fried tofu; 三日の餅 (みかのもちい) Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony
Components
- ⻞
- 并
- ノ radical slash, katakana no
- 一 radical one
- ｜ radical vertical stroke
- 二 radical two
- 丷 radical horns, inverted eight
- 廾 radical two hands
- 食 radical eat; food
Words using 餅
- 餅 (もち) mochi
- 桜餅 (さくらもち) rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a pickled cherry leaf
- わらび餅 (わらびもち) warabimochi
- 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
- 煎餅 (せんべい) (Japanese) rice cracker
- 月餅 (げっぺい) mooncake
- 血餅 (けっぺい) (blood) clot
- 画餅 (がべい) something useless
- 瓦煎餅 (かわらせんべい) tile-shaped rice-cracker
- 餅いなり (もちいなり) sticky rice wrapped in deep-fried tofu
- 三日の餅 (みかのもちい) Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony
- 愛敬の餅 (あいきょうのもちい) Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony
- 環餅 (まがりもちい) pastry made of dough pulled into various shapes and fried
- 椿餅 (つばいもちい) rice-cake sweet sandwiched between two camellia leaves
- 餅餤 (べいだん) Heian-period pastry made of duck or goose eggs mixed with vegetables boiled and wrapped in mochi which is then cut into squares
- 柚餅子 (ゆべし) sweet yuzu-flavoured steamed dumpling
- 御焼き餅 (おやきかちん) roasted mochi
- 葱油餅 (ツォンユーピン) scallion pancake
102 words in all.