銅鑼焼き

Japanese
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
銅 鑼 焼
どう > ど
Grade: 5		 ら
Hyōgaiji		 や
Grade: 4
irregular 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) 

  1. a kind of confection consisting of two small cakes 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)

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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