Meanings
Readings
Common Words
Food, cooking
mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice
to fall on one's backside
Food, cooking
(Japanese) rice cracker; senbei
Word usually written using kana alone
jealousy
roasted rice cake
falling on one's backside; pratfall
mochi used to celebrate a child's first birthday; mochi tied to a baby's back if he starts walking before his first birthday in order to cause him to fall on his backside
konpeitō; small coloured sugar candy covered with tiny bulges
Proverb
every man knows his own business best; one should go to specialists for the best results; for rice cakes, (go to) the rice cake shop
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
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