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

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

mochi English
stem or continuative form of verb m Japanese
両眼鏡 Japanese
八咫鏡 Japanese
影 Japanese
手鏡 Japanese
搗 Japanese
桜餅 Japanese
見 Japanese
見る Japanese
連用形 Japanese
鏡 Japanese
餅 Japanese
餅搗き Japanese
餡餅 Japanese
moci Indonesian
麻糬 Chinese

見
鏡
餅
搗
影
手鏡
見る
桜餅
餡餅
両眼鏡
八咫鏡
餅搗き
連用形
stem or continuative form of verb m