銅鑼焼き

Japanese

Kanji in this term
銅	鑼	焼
どう > ど Grade: 5	ら Hyōgai	や Grade: 4
kan'yōon	on'yomi	kun'yomi

Alternative spellings
銅鑼燒き (kyūjitai) 銅鑼焼どら焼き

Etymology

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

(Tokyo) どらやき [dòráyákí] (Heiban – [0])^[2]
IPA^(key): [do̞ɾa̠ja̠kʲi]

Noun

銅(ど)鑼(ら)焼(や)き • (dorayaki)

dorayaki (a Japanese confection consisting of two sponge cake patties baked to resemble gongs, sandwiching a filling of sweet azuki bean paste)

Synonyms

三笠焼(みかさや)き (mikasayaki) (chiefly Kansai)
三笠饅頭(みかさまんじゅう) (mikasa manjū) (chiefly Kansai)

Descendants

English: dorayaki

References

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

[KDJ-1] Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

[DJR-2] 2.0 ^2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[DJS-3] Matsumura, Akira, editor (1995), 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN

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