noun:

• Heian-period ceremony where a newlywed groom and bride eat a rice-cake on the third night after the wedding ceremony ➜ 三日の餅【みかのもちい】

noun:

• rice fragments; broken rice; crushed rice

noun:

• rice polishing (removing the shell of brown rice to leave white rice)

noun:

• normal rice (as opposed to mochi rice); non-sticky rice ➜ 粳【うる】

noun:

• round frame glasses; round-lensed eyeglasses

noun:

• round-trip transaction; round-tripping

noun:

• unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice

noun / ~する noun:

• whirling; going round and round; rushing a person off his feet

noun:

• cooked and dry packed rice (modern version of hoshii rice); processed quick-cooking rice ➜ 糒

noun:

• cooked and dry packed rice (modern version of hoshii rice); processed quick-cooking rice ➜ 糒

noun:

• burnt rice; scorched rice; crispy rice at bottom of cooking pan
• woman who hangs out with gay men - usually written using kana alone

noun:

• unflavored rice porridge; rice porridge made of only white rice and water - Food term ➜ 粥

noun:

• cylindrical box used to measure rice
• shape for forming rice
• single serving of rice (esp. as prison food) - abbreviation ➜ 物相飯

adverb / ~と adverb:

• (turning) round and round; in circles - onomatopoeia
• wrapping around; winding around - onomatopoeia

noun:

• steamed rice (esp. cold rice reheated by steaming it)
• mochi rice with red beans steamed in a steaming basket; rice with red beans (eaten on celebratory occasions) ➜ こわめし

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to hull (rice, barley, etc.); to pound (rice); to polish (rice); to stamp (ore)

noun:

• small, round cookie; small, round biscuit - From Portuguese "bolo"

noun:

• (before a) Buddhist altar; before the Buddha
• offering placed on a Buddhist altar; incense money; condolatory offering - oft. as 御~

noun:

• new rice field; newly developed rice field
• wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)

noun / ~する noun:

• a round; a turn; going around; making a round ➜ 一回り【ひとまわり】

noun:

• first anniversary of a person's death ➜ 一周忌【いっしゅうき】

noun:

• rice tax (ritsuryo system); rice levy; tax on rice fields ➜ 田租
• annual tribute; annual tax

noun:

• first ears of rice of the season; first crops of the season; first harvest of the season
• offering (to the gods)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• whirling; revolving; spinning; going round and round - onomatopoeia
• coiling around; winding around; rolling around - onomatopoeia
• working tirelessly; working hard - onomatopoeia
• constantly changing - onomatopoeia

noun:

• rice reaping; rice harvesting

noun:

• rice nursery; bed for rice seedlings