| 饴 | |||
| sweet-meats; sweet-cakes; syrup | |||
| Radical | 食飠饣𠋑𩙿𩚀𩚁𩚃 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Strokes (without radical) | 5 | Total Strokes | 8 |
| Mandarin reading | yí sì | Cantonese reading | ji4 |
| Japanese on reading | Japanese kun reading | ||
| Korean reading | Vietnamese reading | ||
| Traditional Variant(s) | 飴 | sweet-meats; sweet-cakes; syrup | |
| 饴 | [ yí ] maltose syrup |
| 饴糖 | [ yí táng ] malt sugar, maltose |
| ⇒ 含饴弄孙 | [ hán yí nòng sūn ] lit. to play with one's grandchildren while eating candy (idiom), fig. to enjoy a happy and leisurely old age |
| ⇒ 甘之如饴 | [ gān zhī rú yí ] lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs); to endure hardship gladly, a glutton for punishment |
| ⇒ 糖饴 | [ táng yí ] malt sugar, maltose |