桜餅
Japanese
kanjitab
Definitions
- sakura mochi: mochi flavored with pickled sakura blossoms, and with an 餡 (sweet bean paste) filling; traditionally served for 雛祭り (Girls' Day) on 3 March
Etymology
Compound from Japanese 桜 (cherry tree, cherry blossom, cherry, cherry blossoms, sakura) + 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
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mochi English
- sakura English
- сакура Russian
- 分銅桜 Japanese
- 咲く Japanese
- 搗 Japanese
- 桜 Japanese
- 桜ん坊 Japanese
- 桜チーズ Japanese
- 桜島 Japanese
- 桜木 Japanese
- 桜湯 Japanese
- 桜肉 Japanese
- 等 Japanese
- 観桜 Japanese
- 鏡餅 Japanese
- 餅 Japanese
- 餅搗き Japanese
- 餡餅 Japanese
- moci Indonesian
- sakura Indonesian
- 麻糬 Chinese
- 사꾸라 Korean
- 사쿠라 Korean
- sakula Kavalan