How to say "cracker" in Japanese

• クラッカーCommon
  nounThe everyday word for the food sense: a thin, crisp baked snack eaten plain or with toppings. This is what you want for ordinary snack crackers.
• 乾パンかんパンCommon
  nounA hard, dry, long-keeping biscuit — hardtack — used as preserved food or emergency rations. Not the word for the light, crisp snack cracker; it is really the hardtack sense.

Use 「クラッカー」 for the ordinary crisp snack cracker eaten as it is, and 「乾パン」 for the hard, dry, long-keeping biscuit — hardtack — kept as preserved food or emergency rations.

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• クラッカーcracker
• 乾パンかんパンcracker