The present invention relates to a cellulose powder usable for a satisfactory orally disintegrating tablet having excellent compression moldability and well-balanced tablet moldability and disintegration properties, which can obtain excellent ingestion feel without feeling roughness and dryness in the oral cavity, and more particularly to a cellulose powder with an average polymerization degree of 150 to 450, an average particle diameter of not less than 10 µm but less than 100 µm, and a primary particle ratio of 50% or more.