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Meanings

rice cake

Readings

On — Chinese-derived reading, usually for compounds
ヘイ
ヒョウ
Kun — Native Japanese reading, usually for standalone words
もち
もちい

Common Words

Noun
Freq #7646
1

Food, cooking

mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice

Examples
彼はをすっかり食べたわけではない。
He didn't eat all of the rice cakes.
煎餅
Noun
Usually kana
Freq #26891
1

Food, cooking

(Japanese) rice cracker; senbei

Examples
あらやだ、このお煎餅もう湿気ってる。
Yecch. This rice cracker is soggy.
焼きもち
焼もち
焼き餠
焼き餅
焼餅
Noun
Freq #29091
1

Word usually written using kana alone

jealousy

Examples
焼もちは友情の敵だ。
Jealousy is an enemy to friendship.
2

roasted rice cake

尻もち
りも
Noun
Freq #43741
1

falling on one's backside; pratfall

2

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

鏡もち
がみもち
鏡餠
Noun
Freq #60634
1

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

えにかいたもち
Expression
Freq #66635
1

Idiomatic expression

pie in the sky; castles in the air; drawing of a rice cake

Examples
絵に書いた餅は食べられない。
Never confuse art with life.
草餠
もち
Noun
Freq #85667
1

rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort

御幣餅
御幣餠
五平餠
ごへいもち
Noun
Freq #90361
1

skewered sweet rice cakes served with soy sauce and miso

なえもち
供え餠
Noun
Freq #205563
1

offering of mochi rice cakes; mochi rice cakes used as offering

餠網
ちあみ
Noun
Freq #218842
1

grill or grate for toasting rice cakes

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