銅鑼焼き

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銅鑼焼き (dorayaki): a whole dorayaki cake.
銅鑼焼き (dorayaki): a dorayaki cake cut in half, showing the azuki filling.
Kanji in this term
どう > ど
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Hyōgaiji

Grade: 4
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Alternative spellings
銅鑼燒き (kyūjitai)
銅鑼焼
どら焼き

Etymology[edit]

Compound of 銅鑼 (dora, gong) +‎ 焼き (yaki, baking, roasting, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, continuative or stem form) of verb 焼く yaku, “to bake, to roast”), from the way the shape of the two cake pieces resembles a classical gong.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

()()() (dorayaki

  1. a kind of confection consisting of two small cakes baked to resemble gongs, sandwiching a filling of sweet azuki bean paste

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN