鏡餅
Japanese
kanjitab
Definitions
- a set of rice cakes for traditional Japanese New Years decoration
Etymology
Compound from Japanese 鏡 (mirror, lens) + 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