| 飴 | |||
| sweet-meats; sweet-cakes; syrup | |||
| Radical | 食飠饣𠋑𩙿𩚀𩚁𩚃 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 5 | Total Strokes | 14 |
| Mandarin reading | yí sì | Cantonese reading | ji4 |
| Japanese on reading | i shi | Japanese kun reading | ame |
| Korean reading | i si | Vietnamese reading | |
| Simplified Variant(s) | 饴 | ||
| 飴 | [ yí ] maltose syrup |
| 飴糖 | [ yí táng ] malt sugar, maltose |
| ⇒ 含飴弄孫 | [ hán yí nòng sūn ] lit. to play with one's grandchildren while eating candy (idiom), fig. to enjoy a happy and leisurely old age |
| ⇒ 甘之如飴 | [ gān zhī rú yí ] lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs); to endure hardship gladly, a glutton for punishment |
| ⇒ 糖飴 | [ táng yí ] malt sugar, maltose |