Illustration: At the counter of a small Japanese confectionery shop, a maker places a flower-shaped nerikiri sweet onto a tray beside daifuku and neatly cut yokan. One daifuku has been cut open to reveal its soft rice-cake skin and dense bean-paste filling.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

和わ菓が子し

wagashi

traditional Japanese sweets

Example sentences

  1. 和菓子わがしは洋菓子ようがしよりカロリーが低ひくい。

    Japanese sweets are lower in calories than Western sweets.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 和菓子わがしが食たべたい。

    I want to eat Japanese sweets.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 「福山田楽ふくやまでんがく」という、お餅もちにきな粉こをまぶした和菓子わがしも存在そんざいする。

    There is also a Japanese sweet called Fukuyama Dengaku which is a rice cake with powdered soybeans.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 和菓子

  • 和harmony; Japanese styleOnワ・オ・カKunやわらぐ・やわらげる・なごむ
  • 菓sweets; cakesOnカ
  • 子childOnシ・ス・ツKunこ・ね

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