餅 — kanji meaning “mochi rice cake”
餅
mochi rice cake
- Meanings
- mochi rice cake
- On'yomi
- ヘイ (hei)、ヒョウ (hyou)
- Kun'yomi
- もち、もちい
- Strokes
- 14
- School grade
- 8
- Newspaper frequency
- #2152 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 184
- Chinese reading
- bǐng — Chinese character page
Words with 餅
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 煎餅 | せんべい senbei | (Japanese) rice cracker; senbei |
| 桜餅 | さくらもち sakuramochi | rice cake with bean paste wrapped in a pickled cherry leaf |
| 月餅 | げっぺい geppei | mooncake; disc-shaped confection of wheat-flour dough filled with bean paste, usu. eaten during Autumn in China |
| 鏡餅 | かがみもち kagamimochi | 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 |
| 餅屋 | もちや mochiya | rice cake shop keeper; rice cake store (shop) |
| 菱餅 | ひしもち hishimochi | rhombus-shaped mochi |
| 尻餅 | しりもち shirimochi | falling on one's backside; pratfall |
| 柏餅 | かしわもち kashiwamochi | rice cake wrapped in oak leaves |
| 草餅 | くさもち kusamochi | rice-flour dumplings mixed with mugwort; mugwort rice cake |
| ぼた餅 | ぼたもち botamochi | adzuki bean-covered mochi; botamochi |
| 切り餅 | きりもち kirimochi | rice cakes cut into rectangles (esp. eaten on New Year's Day) |
| 葛餅 | くずもち kuzumochi | kudzu starch cake; pudding-like arrowroot cake |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.