餅菓子

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
餅	菓	子
もち Grade: S	か > が Grade: S	し Grade: 1
on'yomi

Alternative spellings
餠菓子 (kyūjitai) もち菓子

Etymology

From 餅(もち) (mochi) + 菓子(かし) (kashi). The kashi changes to gashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) もちがし (Nakadaka – )^[1]
IPA^(key):

Noun

餅(もち)菓(が)子(し) • (mochigashi) ^{←もちぐわし (motigwasi)^?}

mochi sweet

References

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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