sweet-meats

Components
飠 meaning component

  Meaning component

shí

  

eat

food

台 sound component

  Sound component

tái

  

platform

Evolution

飴 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

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

Seal script

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

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
飴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

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

Most common words with 飴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

饴糖

malt sugar

syrup

甘之如饴

a glutton for punishment

糖饴

malt sugar

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5355th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

13

Simplified

Unicode

U+98F4

Shuowen

“飴,米糱煎也。从食,台聲。,籀文飴,从異省。”


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