Illustration: At a family kitchen table, several rectangular white rice cakes toast on a small tabletop grill. One has swollen into an enormous blister, making a child lean back in delighted surprise. An adult uses chopsticks to pull apart a cooked piece over a plate, exposing its soft, elastic interior.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

餅もち

mochi

mochi, rice cake

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは餅もちをすっかり食たべたわけではない。

    He didn’t eat all of the rice cakes.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. もちを食たべている時ときにのどに詰つまらせて窒息死ちっそくしする老人ろうじんがたくさんいる。

    Many old people choke to death while eating mochi.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 日本にっぽんではお正月しょうがつにお餅もちを食たべる習慣しゅうかんがあります。

    There is a custom of eating rice cakes for New Year’s in Japan.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 餅

  • 餅mochi rice cakeOnヘイ・ヒョウKunもち・もちい

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