鏡餅
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Japanese[edit]
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 鏡 | 餅 |
| かがみ Grade: 4 |
もち Grade: S |
| kun’yomi | |
| Alternative spellings |
|---|
| 鏡餠 (kyūjitai) 鏡もち |
Etymology[edit]
Compound of 鏡 (kagami, “mirror”) + 餅 (mochi, “mochi, a doughy kind of rice cake made from pounded glutinous rice”), so called for the resemblance in outline to ancient Japanese bronze mirrors.[1][2]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
鏡餅 • (kagami mochi)
- a set of rice cakes for traditional Japanese New Years decoration
References[edit]
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 鏡 read as かがみ
- Japanese terms spelled with 餅 read as もち
- Japanese terms read with kun'yomi
- Japanese compound terms
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms written with two Han script characters
- ja:Food and drink
- ja:New Year