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Kanji Detail for 餅 - "rice cake, mochi"
餅
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Meaning
餅 means "rice cake, mochi." Also associated with flat round shape.
Rice cake - A food made from kneaded flour.
Flat round shape - Something round and flat like rice cake.
Mochi - Steamed glutinous rice pounded into cakes.
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Words using 餅
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煎餅
せんべい
(Japanese) rice cracker; senbei
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煎餅
せんべい
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Tattoo check: 餅
- Verified meaning: rice cake, mochi
- Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
- Used in real Japanese given names (read もち, もちさき)
- Also carries these associations: flat round shape
A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.
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Name readings of 餅
Surnames 餅(もち)
餅(もちさき)
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Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
mochi rice cake
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
rice-cakes, biscuits
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
round flat cake; cookie; cake; pastry; CL:張|张[zhang1]
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
rice-cake, pastry, biscuit
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A food item. Kneaded flour made into a flat round shape, baked with fire and eaten. The maker is also called 餅師. Also, boiled noodles are called 湯餅. In ancient times, families with newborns often served noodles to guests, called 湯餅會.
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Onyomi
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Kunyomi
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Strokes
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Radical
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Related Keywords
Sentences including 餅
餅は餅屋。
Every man for his own trade.
A specialist has his own strength.
His bread is buttered on both sides.
Mooncake is a Chinese pastry.
I bought some mooncake, do you want some?
Never confuse art with life.
棚からぼた餅とはこのことだ。
This is what they call a lucky break.
Yecch. This rice cracker is soggy.
He didn't eat all of the rice cakes.
No, a dango is not a mochi.