桜餅

Japanese

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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).

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Japanese

Gloss

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

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