餅 — mochi rice cake

もち餅 mochi rice cake

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 14 strokes

U+9905 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #2152 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1590 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

mochi rice cake

Readings

On'yomi: へい hei ひょう hyou
Kun'yomi: もち mochi もちい mochii

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もち mochi Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

餅(もち) mochi rice cake

Stroke order

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Components

Composed of

𩙿 food

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

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