mochi

English

noun

Definitions

A Japanese rice cake made from glutinous rice.

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 餅 (mochi, pounded sweet-rice dough, rice cake, a doughy kind of rice cake made from pounded glutinous rice).

Origin

Japanese

餅

Gloss

mochi, pounded sweet-rice dough, rice cake, a doughy kind of rice cake made from pounded glutinous rice

`Kanji`

餅

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Cognates and derived terms

搗 Japanese
桜餅 Japanese
鏡餅 Japanese
餅 Japanese
餅搗き Japanese
餡餅 Japanese
moci Indonesian
麻糬 Chinese