sweet-meats

Components
饣 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

food

台 sound component

  Sound component

tái

  

platform

Evolution

饴 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
饴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
饴 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
饴 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
饴 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

sweet-meats; sweet-cakes; syrup; maltose syrup

Most common words with 饴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

饴糖

malt sugar

syrup

甘之如饴

a glutton for punishment

糖饴

malt sugar