Hail (graupel) - Hail

Japanese: あられ(霰) - あられ

Abbreviation of arare mochi (rice cake with rice crackers). Finely cut mochi is thoroughly dried, roasted or deep-fried to make it puffed up, and seasoned with soy sauce. There are varieties such as shinagawamaki, which is wrapped in nori seaweed, and kakinotane, which is seasoned with chili pepper. There are also varieties such as hoshi arare, which is made by drying and roasting rice grains, and hina arare, which is made by sprinkling sugar on rice grains.
→ Related item Senbei (rice crackers)

Hail (graupel)

A type of precipitation, small pellets 2 to 5 mm in diameter. Snow hail is snow with a small amount of supercooled water droplets attached. It usually falls before or after snowfall in winter when the temperature is near 0°C, and is white and soft. Ice hail is small, hard ice particles. It falls from cumulonimbus clouds when the temperature is above 0°C.
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Japanese:

あられ餅(もち)の略。細かく切った餅をよく乾燥させ，炒(い)ったり揚げたりしてふくらませ，醤油などで味付けしたもの。ノリを巻いた品川巻，トウガラシをきかせた柿の種など。また飯粒を干して炒った糒(ほしい)あられ，これに砂糖をかけた雛(ひな)あられなどがある。
→関連項目せんべい（煎餅）