Kanji Detail for 餅 - "rice cake, flat round shape, mochi"

餅

Jōyō Kanji

Meaning
餅 means "rice cake, flat round shape, mochi."
1. Rice cake - A food made from kneaded flour.
2. Flat round shape - Something round and flat like rice cake.
3. Mochi - Steamed glutinous rice pounded into cakes.
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.
Onyomi

hei(ヘイ)

hyoh(ヒョウ)
Kunyomi

mochi(もち)

mochii(もちい)
Strokes

15 strokes
Radical

食飠 (shoku・shokuhen)
Related Keywords
rice cake flat round shape mochi chewy glutinous pounded kneaded dough snack food dessert grilled