菓子|かしkashi[1]atamadaka (head-high)

1. nounconfectionery; sweets; candy; cake
   この菓子かしを自由じゆうにお取とり下ください。↗

   Please help yourself to these cakes.

• Synonymお菓子おかしCasualお菓子（おかし）: 菓子 with the polite prefix お; neutral in register, it is the everyday word for sweets, candy, or cake in conversation, as when offering them to guests.

Use お菓子 for sweets, candy, or cake in everyday speech; 菓子 alone is more formal, appearing mostly in writing and in compounds.

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1. 嗜好品しこうひんとして、食味しょくみを強調きょうちょうされて製造せいぞうされた食品しょくひんの総称そうしょう。おかし。