Kanji1 / 11
菓 kanji
candy, cakes, fruit
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Secondary school
On readings
カ
Kun readings
NoneWords with 菓
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —麩菓子candy made from wheat gluten; wheat-gluten snack
- —菓子店confectioner; confectionery; candy store
- —袋菓子small bag of snack food (cookies, potato chips, etc.)
- —菓子札card (oft. featuring illustrations of sweets) used to represent money when gambling
- —蒸し菓子steamed confection (e.g. manjū, uirō, steamed yōkan); steamed cake
- —引き菓子ornamental gift cakes
- —練り菓子kneaded sweet; confection made by combining powdered or granular ingredients (e.g. rice flour, sesame seeds, sugar) with a liquid or sweet bean paste and kneading the resulting mixture
- —製菓業者confectioner
- —菓子折りbox of sweets (usu. given as a gift)
- —菓子パンbaked sweet goods (e.g. Danish pastry, melon bread); sweet pastry; sweet bread
- —焼き菓子baked sweets
- —もち菓子bean-jam cake; rice-cake sweets
- —南蛮菓子confections adopted from Portugal, Spain, etc. during the Muromachi period and since Japanized
- —和菓子屋Japanese-style confectionary store
- —和菓子店Japanese-style confectionary store
- —上生菓子high-grade Japanese fresh confections (usu. colorful sculpted mochi in seasonal designs around bean paste)
- —棹物菓子Japanese sweets in the form of long blocks (e.g. yokan, uiro)
- —半生菓子semiperishable sweets; half-dry confectionery
- —砂糖菓子candy; sweet; confectionary
- —ポン菓子puffed cereal