| Word | Reading | Meaning |
| 餅 | もち, もちい, かちん, あも | sticky rice cake |
| 餅 | あんもち, あんも | mochi rice cake with red bean jam filling, mochi rice cake covered in red bean jam; mochi rice cake |
| お餅 | おもち | rice cakes, pounded mochi rice |
| 餅つき | もちつき | pounding mochi |
| わらび餅 | わらびもち | bracken-starch dumpling (type of dumpling traditionally made using bracken starch) |
| きなこ餅 | きなこもち | mochi sprinkled with soy flour |
| 餅いなり | もちいなり | sticky rice wrapped in deep-fried tofu |
| 安倍川餅 | あべかわもち | rice cakes (mochi) with Kinako |
| 牡丹餅 | ぼたもち | Adzuki bean mochi |
| 画餅 | がべい, がへい | failure, fiasco, rice-cake painting, collapse, something of little value |