Freshly made rice cakes are soft and chewy, very tasty.
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糍 is bound, used in 糍粑 — a glutinous rice cake made by steaming and pounding sticky rice. It is a beloved festival food across southern and southwestern China.
The rice radical on the left, a pictograph of scattered grains. It anchors the meaning in a rice food — here a pounded glutinous rice cake. It groups 糍 with 粥, 糕, and 粽.
