Kanji
餅
N1
14 strokes
Grade 8
freq #2152
mochi rice cake
On'yomi (音読み)
ヘイ、 ヒョウ
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
もち、 もちい
On'yomi compounds (音読み)
煎餅
せんべい
(Japanese) rice cracker; senbei
葱油餅
ツォンユーピン
scallion pancake; green onion cake
月餅
げっぺい
mooncake; disc-shaped confection of wheat-flour dough filled with bean paste, usu. eaten during Autumn in China
Kun'yomi words (訓読み)
餅
もち
mochi; small rice cake made from glutinous rice
環餅
まがりもちい
pastry made of dough pulled into various shapes and fried
汁の餅
しるのもち
mochi received from one's parents after giving birth (trad. eaten in miso soup to improve lactation)
柿餅
かきもち
persimmon-filled mochi
大根餅
だいこんもち
turnip cake (dim sum dish); radish cake
栃餅
とちもち
cake made from pounded horse chestnuts and mochi rice
氷餅
こおりもち
mochi freeze-dried in the winter air
椿餅
つばいもちい
rice-cake sweet sandwiched between two camellia leaves
餅粥
もちがゆ
rice gruel with mochi
餅巾着
もちきんちゃく
mochikinchaku; glutinous rice in a pouch of fried tofu, used in oden
Example sentences
もちを食（た）べている時（とき）にのどに詰（つ）まらせて窒息死（ちっそくし）する老人（ろうじん）がたくさんいる。
Many old people choke to death while eating mochi.
餅は餅屋（もちはもちや）。
Every man to his trade.