The kanji 餅: meaning, readings and stroke order
餅
- Meaning
- rice cake
- On reading
- ヘイ hei
- Kun reading
- もち mochi
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 食 eat, food
- Level
- Level 10 · the last years of senior high
- Old form
- 餠
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- bánh mochi, bánh gạo (bính)
- Japanese
- もち。こめを ついて つくる たべもの。
- Korean
- 떡 (병)
- Chinese
- 年糕、米饼 (饼)
Readings, words and example sentences
ヘイ hei · on reading · less common
煎餅
rice cracker
お茶と 煎餅を いただきます。
I have rice crackers with my tea.
もち mochi · kun reading
餅
mochi, rice cake
正月に 餅を 食べます。
We eat mochi at New Year.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.